On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 13:10:54 Martin Helm wrote:
Am 29.11.2011 12:57, schrieb Andreas Jaeger:
Martin, the release notes are available during installation as well - and those cannot be updated. Btw. I don't consider the filesystem as experimental any more - but yes, it's not as mature as others, Andreas I know that these cannot be updated. But what is available on the web. It is just my wording that I call it experimental as long as the btrfs wiki states
"Note that Btrfs does not yet have a fsck tool that can fix errors. While Btrfs is stable on a stable machine, it is currently possible to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably if your machine crashes or loses power on disks that don't handle flush requests correctly. This will be fixed when the fsck tool is ready."
I used it myself during the RC's for one week under real life conditions on my notebook to check its performance and features (very pleasing experience) at the end of my tests I tried to destroy it by removing the battery and then repeatedly unplug the power supply, the third time I did that I was able to bring it into a state were it could no longer recover.
So let's not discuss too much about if experimental is the right word, it is just my personal point of view nothing else. I just want to avoid that we have a flood of inexperienced users on the forum breaking their home machines and seek for solutions, there are more than enough were the problem is not the file system. I hope you understand that and I am well aware that too many users do not read any documentation, do not read release notes and also do not make backups and this kind of users we can anyway not help much.
Yes, I fully understand this, just the "experimental" is a word I wouldn't have choosen. Let me try to come up with another version in bugzilla, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org