On 27/02/17 07:04 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
from man btrfs check
"Warning Do not use --repair unless you are advised to by a developer, an experienced user or accept the fact that fsck cannot possibly fix all sorts of damage that could happen to a filesystem because of software and hardware bugs."
I am puzzled by all this. What's the point in shipping a file system if you can't supply the tools so that end users can perform maintenance on them? In effect what this saying is that the file system is unreliable because it can't be maintained or repaired except by the developers. And, lets face it, developers are just, to quote Doug Adams, regular guys. They have lives apart from being on 24/7 alert for Linux users who have borked their file system and need a developer to repair it for them. Thank you, Richard, for brining to our attention this damning indictment of BtrFS. Now we all know better than to install something that can't be maintained by us 'regular guys'. Richard, you go on to make an excellent case for the use of BtrFS in a commercial/industrial setting where the corporation can pay for support. And I agree with that, having worked in such establishments. Your arguments are fully justified. But for the regular home users, the 'Joe six-pack', the people converting from MS-Windows because Microsoft has finally pizzed them off, the people setting up a basic email&browser for grandmother (yes, I know, she should have been given a ChromeBook for Christmas!), its quite another matter. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org