On 02/18/2015 12:52 PM, Joe Zappa wrote:

Anton Aylward wrote:

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I had hoped that BtrFS might have enough to make me want to change from ReiserFS+LVM but nothing so far. In fact a lot of what BtrFS offers turns out as a DIS-incentive to change.

Yeah... to me, BtrFS seems to include a lot of concepts that I really don't want except for under special circumstances.

There are many things about the current Linux that are oriented to Big System/Big Business rather than the home user or the hobbyist. Some of the capabilities of BtrFS seems to fall in that category. Its not that the home user/hobbyist can't use them, just that they are rather more than is expected. I suspect that Microsoft has the same issue with the Home vs Pro versions of Windows, but since I don't use ether I can't say for sure.

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I realise that many people badmouth ReiserFS because of the namesake/inventor being a murderer and since progressive development has

I don't care about that... the quality of the code is completely independent of whatever happened between him and his wife.

I agree. Not least of all since much of the coding was done by his team. But there are many people out there who can't make that separation and so decry the FS because of the name.

I'm surprised that they haven't allowed him to have internet access, if only for the reason that he's not a threat to the community at large [he's not going to hire a hitman], and allowing him to keep his mind occupied with filesystem design would be a good thing for both him and society as a whole.

The law is rarely concerned with society as a whole in that sense.

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realise things like the kernel 'progress', but most of what get added are things that are not of specific value to me. Bug fixes matter more, when bugs happen. Right now, BtrFS, my root FS, is more buggy/unstable than my /home on ReiserFS.

Ouch!

I would rather put root on even ext2 than anything that is unstable or buggy.

I have my /boot on ext2. The thing that puzzles me is that I've run BtrFS as ROOT on a couple of machines, 32-bit and 64-bit, two of each, here, and never had a problem with it ** AS ROOT **. When I run it as /home it rapidly corrupts. All this is under LVM partitions. The only 'native' partitions I have, ever have for many years now, are /boot and SWAP. -- 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