On 3/10/14, 8:02 PM, Avi Miller wrote: > > On 11 Mar 2014, at 11:39 am, Lists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Is there a "recommended way" to do this? Is it anywhere as easy as >> ZFSonLinux yum install? > > Oracle Linux 6 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 or > Release 3 has production-ready btrfs support. You can even convert > your existing CentOS6 boxes across to Oracle Linux 6 in-place without > reinstalling: > > http://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/ If we're plugging distros... I can also tell you that you can install upcoming RHEL7 on btrfs if you like, and it has a very up-to-date btrfs codebase. Of course Fedora and other "non-enterprise" distros have btrfs support as well. But we're keeping it "tech preview" in RHEL7 for now, because in our testing, it does not yet reach the level of reliability that we wish to provide to our customers. Indeed, testing 3.8.13-26.2.1.el6uek.x86_64 (which is, I believe, the kernel which Avi referred to) via xfstests, I saw failures on btrfs/009 and btrfs/022; then the box deadlocked on btrfs/024. I rebooted & resumed, then deadlocked on btrfs/030. Rebooted and resumed again, then panicked on btrfs/035. At that point I stopped. Ben, the best advice I have for you is to test *your* workload on btrfs with whatever qualification tests you have, and see how things fare. If you want to know the current state of btrfs, test the upstream code as best you can; if you hope to deploy on a distribution with a longer support window, test on that distribution. But I agree with Josef that for now, the fixes and changes are still flying fast & furious, and except in limited use cases, btrfs is not yet ready for general commercial deployment. -Eric -- 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
