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On 20/09/17 06:00 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
Apart from the following facts
You are arguing my case, Richard. These are all excellent reasons for those here who want to fiddle, have time to fiddle, or for the proper IT department admins. They are excellent reasons to write manuals, books and run courses. All money-making enterprises. They are all reasons why the home user, the non-technical user, the small business that hasn't a supporting geek, should avoid BtrFS. And, for that matter, file systems such as ext4 that need pre-analysis to choose the right model out of /etc/mke2fs.conf. They are all reasons why ReiserFS is more suitable for the situations where the corporations that manage the major distributions don't want t go. They are uneconomical compared to the Big Shops that run Big Servers. I've been to the "SUSE Days" marketing and future announcements regularly as the come here to Toronto each years for some while now. They are good shows. Not only are the technical support guys good and both knowledgeable ad articulate, the marketing guys are very technically knowledgeable as well. But it is very clear that they are addressing an up-market. The features, all the way from the build service as a means of deployment and distribution across a corporate WAN, to resilience with the use of BtrFS+raid across hundreds of spindles[1]. This is well and good. I understand business economics and economies of scale. It just means that Suse, like others, are admitting that Linux can't, economically, own the desktop. This is true. Linux-as-we-are-using-it will run on old desktop machines. You don't need trash your old machines with each new release. This is bad for the economy, especially with Global Trade. Trashing each generation of machines, and this is supported by our taxation system with the way such assets are depreciated in the accounting system, means that there are always a flow of new one, which means jobs all the way don't the line, not only in manufacturing but packaging,distribution, sales and more. There are jobs for the telcos so people can phone in orders and phone to asks why their shipment hasn't been delivered. There's jobs for the auto forms to make the brown vans that deliver the parts, there's jobs for the gas station attendants that run the gas stations that supply the fuel for the brown vans. The social impact of not trashing your equipment regularly is enormous! If you think that Microsoft was in cahoots with the PC vendors then you lack imagination! But the server market is growing. With the rise of the popularity of the cloud server farms are more in demand. Desktops are being replaced by chromebooks and tablets and phones. So Suse's marketing direction makes sense, doesn't it? [1] That picture of the RAID room had at least 20 cabinets that I could see. I suspect, based on my experience with such products from IBM, HP and some 3rd party vendors at sites where I've worked that each cabinet had at least four 'drawers' of four or five drives. -- 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