-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20/04/13 14:23, Hugo Mills wrote: > You should upgrade anyway -- there's been a number of serious bugs in > btrfs fixed since then. 13.04 is imminent so I'll pick up a newer kernel as part of that anyway. (Also Tanglu which I hope to move to intends to use the Ubuntu kernel anyway.) In any event I am not worried. Bug fixes get backported. The probability of hitting any serious bug is low (others would likely be victims first) and worst case I have backups (snapshots, other machines, Google/Dropbox, DVDs & hard drives at other people's houses etc). There are two major reasons I switched from ext4. The first is that everything is online, including adding and removing devices, checking data integrity etc. The second is that data not silently lost. I had some bad sectors develop on ext4 spinning disk and the only way to properly recover was to do offline checks that would have taken ~ 24 hours! Finding out which filenames were involved was far too much effort. My philosophy is that we have machines with billions of processor cycles per second. They can figure things out for themselves without requiring me to baby sit them! I also run btrfs in a variety of configurations - raid0, raid1, sata, usb, hdd, ssd, single device, multi-device, bare, dmcrypt, machines on all the time, laptop, frequent suspend/resume, frequent power on/off. I've never experienced any problems with btrfs and use scrub for reassurance. Roger -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFzHkwACgkQmOOfHg372QSBBwCfYYJQm9l9ts9eWOvZIRUlTCWJ KsMAoLVsd1fRdV+T7KO7nVVGuFCGYN5a =Y4by -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
