On 2017-09-20 14:22, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 20/09/17 05:12 AM, Rodney Baker wrote:
Btrfs is a great choice - if you want to end up with an unbootable system after a few shapshots have used up all available disk space on the root filesystem, leaving the system unbootable and unrecoverable (and all because it doesn’t use sensible defaults and there is no warning during installation that the defaults need to be tweaked to prevent this).
Yes.
BtrFS is a great FS for a professional system such as a IT department, especially one that is used to mainframes where there are admins who are used to the rollback/snapshot mechanism. To them it is very important so that problematic upgrades/patches can be reversed.
I have seen novices revert a system patch to the previous working condition unaided. Btrfs is great for this. However, I have also seen it break, and when it does, many people need guidance, because the tools are not sufficiently automatic for repair. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)