Hi Chris, Le 04/12/2012 03:18, Chris Samuel a écrit : > In that case maybe using an experimental filesystem that is under rapid > development might not be a good choice, it might be better to stick to > one of the existing stable filesystems instead. I already made the move back and forth ext4 <-> BTRFS twice... Reading here or there that the new (or the next) kernel is the one that indeed fixes the bugs (3.3) or gives performance improvements (3.5), or will make you happy this time, etc... And each time I'm told that well, the current kernel is not so good actually, but the next one is so much better ! So you should try the next beta, or fetch and compile the curent mainline kernel... ...Neverending story... All this boils down to : I do really need some of the features of BTRFS (snapshots, checksumming, supposed high reliability...) but I also need my computers to stay usable on a daily basis without too much hassle and not spending 3 hours a day beta-testing or upgrading kernels... or waiting for my mouse click to produce a result. For getting this result I have a choice between : - ZFS, that has proven rock-solid, feature-rich and efficient on one of my machines for 2+ years, but is'nt part of "standard" Linux, will probably never be, so causes issues at each distro, is tricky installing as rootfs and which future in Linux is unclear (I don't want to have to reinstall in 6 months a machine I install now because its filesystem would end being unsupported...) - BTRFS, which has already proven that it could kill all my data 3 times, which is badly slow, immature, but part of the standard kernel, and supposed to improve at a fast pace and have its future ahead. So basically each time I install a new system, I ask myself : ext4 ? (but I will lack features I badly need)... ZFS ? (Excellent today, but will I have to reinstall the machine in 6 months ?)... BTRFS (a slow unreliable pain in the a** today, but is it this time mature enough that this bet will make sense ?). So well... 3.5 is a pain for databases... Now I hope I will be happy in 6 months at next Ubuntu release... If not, maybe in a year... Or a couple years... Well... Kind regards. -- Swâmi Petaramesh <swami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://petaramesh.org PGP 9076E32E Ne cherchez pas : Je ne suis pas sur Facebook. -- 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
