On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:47:28 +0100 Swâmi Petaramesh <swami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le 21/02/2013 18:25, Hugo Mills a écrit : > > Correct. But btrfs isn't at that stage yet. It's getting visibly > > closer, but it's not quite there. Hence the very strong > > recommendation to keep up with the latest code. Hugo. > > The matter is that BTRFS had many early adopters just because it is - > and has been for long now - in the mainline Linux kernel, so supposed > stable and good choice for the future. And it's marked as EXPERIMENTAL. So if you want to join the game, you have to accept the rules. > OTOH my 6th machine runs native ZFS on Linux, and I have to tell that > it shows orders of magnitude better performance and never gave me a > single problem in several (3 ?) years. Only upgrading the distro is > always a big frightening and problematic. And initial installation > was a bit tricky. You didn't, many other had. I remember a lot of threads in the OpenSolaris forum, where the solution for problems was: recreate your filesystem, replay your backup. > Everytime I show my Linux machines to friends and say : “Hey, I got > the most advanced filesystem on earth !” I soon get the answer “Oh > boy, that's the slowest machine boot and FS I've ever seen since I was > reading floppy disks on my 386SX in 1991 ! Can you really live with > this ?” Did you presented it while (re)creating the inode_cache? Sounds a little like that. > So, for "not quite there" and the return codes "+20" that have been a > minor pain in the arse for a couple years but the line is still in the > code... I can understand developer's PoV, been there, done that, but > still, BTRFS might in the end lose a numer of its early adopters if it > keeps being "not quite there" too long. > > Shitfing to ZFS is just a PPA and 2 apt-get install commands away... > It will definitely be easier than start playing with mainline PPA > Ubuntu kernels... So why do you bother with btrfs, if ZFS fit your needs? regards, Johannes -- 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
