On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2015-08-25 11:22, Vincent Olivier wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have been using Btrfs for almost a year now with a 16x4TB RAID10 and its >> 8x4TB RAID0 backup (using incremental snapshots diffs). I have always tried >> to stay at the latest stable kernel (currently 4.1.6). But I might be moving >> to Fedora 22 because Centos 7 has significant incompatibilities with the >> 4.1.x kernel series. >> >> I have seen the news about Bcachefs aiming to be Btrfs-complete while >> being extX-stable. >> >> What are the chances Bcachefs beats Btrfs at being the Linux kernel's next >> "official" file system ? I chose Btrfs over ZFS because it seemed like the >> only "next-gen" heir to ext4/xfs. >> >> I have been having a few problems with Btrfs myself. I have only one that >> remains unresolved : I haven't found the best way to mount Btrfs at boot >> time. "LABEL=" won't work for known reasons (I don't understand however why >> a mount can't do its own "device scan" transparently). "UUID=" won't work >> for unknown reasons (haven't got a reply on this, maybe it's the same as >> "LABEL="). And I will use /dev/* in fstab for stability reasons. Right now >> I'm mounting the fs manually after a "device scan" and picking up the first >> device that shows up in the "fi show" run. I can "live" with that but I >> suppose that things like this contribute to the feeling that Btrfs is >> actually still experimental contrarily to claims that it is >> production-ready. >> >> For my own sake and other's I would like to maintain (if nobody is already >> working on that nor needs any help) a centralized human-readable digest of >> known issues that would be featured prominently on top of the Btrfs wiki. I >> would merge the Gotchas page and the various known issues pages (including >> the various multi-device mount gotchas here and there). >> >> Answers ? Comments ? Help ? > > First off, I think this is a wonderful idea. The list of known issues isn't > always particularly up to date, and isn't as trivial to find as it should > be. > I think it's a great idea too and would like to contribute. Can someone please lead the way? -- Suman Chakravartula Founder @ Rockstor http://rockstor.com http://rockstor.com/blog http://forum.rockstor.com -- 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
