On 31 December 2016 at 18:49, John Andersen
On 12/31/2016 02:00 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
A lot of the horror stories I've seen regarding btrfs are due to misuse / abuse of btrfs far more than actual issues or bugs,
Misuse / Abuse? Seriously, who sets out to abuse a file system on which they depend? That is the most absurd claim I've seen in years.
Here's how it works in the real world: You install your OS, select a file system, and put all your stuff there. You seldom give much thought to the selection because its mostly esoteric anyway and one is pretty much as good as another for any given purpose.
Over the subsequent years You don't expect to tip-toe around your file system fearing it will break. And you are astounded if it is ever necessary to do anything beyond the normal boot up fsck.
It NEVER rises to the level of a horror story, let alone a "lot of horror stories".
Then you meet btrfs....
You should have run away from her when you saw all the piercings and tattoos and those large mesh stocking, but your friends at the distro recommended her when you installed.
And that's when the fight started...
In the real world I expect users to spend some time to understand the tools they have chosen to use and to use them appropriately I do not expect them to continue using them the way they have been used for many years, just because they used to work in a certain way We're a software project, software changes over time, a reasonable amount of re-education over time is not only healthy, but mandatory btrfs has been available in openSUSE since 11.3 (released in 2010, over 6 years ago). It's been the default in in openSUSE since 13.2 (released over 2 years ago) It's not like it's snuck up on people without time for them to start learning..but when they go ahead and run fsck before doing any of the other steps that are documented to be done before a repair, yes, that's misuse and abuse. Period. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org