Hi. On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:37:27AM -0500, Thomas King (kingttx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > I asked the author that question and he states XFS is actually a pretty good > answer to most of those issues but believes it still falls short where "the > metadata areas are not aligned with RAID strips and allocation units are FAR too > small but better than ext." Another detail he brought out was sending data and > metadata to different devices in those environments and referenced RT XFS. > Otherwise having them on the same device increases the possibility of corruption > and/or a longer filesystem check/repair. Will btrfs offer something like this in > the future? Right now btrfs can be created on top of multiple devices. AFAIK, there are no policies on hwo to put data and metadata between them. > Do y'all foresee btrfs being used in exabtye installations? > Does/Will btrfs have RAID awareness in that it will align "the > superblock and metadata to the RAID stripe"? > What is the largest block allocation available? > Will btrfs be T10 DIF/block protect aware? > I remember reading that CRFS relies on btrfs, but will btrfs support NFS, > specifically version 4.1? Original author does not belive in networked filesystem as a key method to organize large storages :) Changes to filesystem are quite simple in order fs would be exported via NFS, so that should not be a problem. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
