On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Chris Samuel <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A friend of mine who builds storage systems designed for HPC > use has been keeping an eye on btrfs and has just done some > testing of it with 2.6.36 and seems to like what he sees in > terms of stability. That's a *very* misleading conclusion to come to based solely on a single file I/O test. It's more realistic to say "stable under fio load in ideal conditions". For example: No device-yanking tests were done. No power-cord yanking tests were done. No device cables were yanked, shaken, or plugged/unplugged in rapid succession. No "dd the raw device underneath the filesystem while doing file I/O" tests were done. No recovery tests were done. IOW, you can't really say "it's stable" across the board like that. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
