On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought one of the biggest blockers was the lack of a complete and
> stable fsck implementation for it.

I think this is a poor metric for outsiders to require. ZFS has been stable for 
some time and does not have an fsck. A more important question from those not 
directly involved in Btrfs development, is when is it stable enough that 
developers will be willing to back port significant fixes to older kernels. 
Currently the #1 suggestion on linux-btrfs@ when users have problems is to try 
the latest kernel, i.e. a week ago the suggestion to a user was to try it on 
3.8.0.-rc3, which currently only appeared about 5 days ago for rawhide. Not F18.

So if regular Fedora users having Btrfs problems are going to be told to use 
kernels that might not even available in koji, let alone not in updates-testing 
for the actual current released version? I think that's disqualifying. Not the 
lack of a stable or complete fsck.


On Jan 16, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:13:07 +1030
> William Brown <will...@firstyear.id.au> wrote:
> 
>> I take it then that subvolid 258 is marked as "/" in your fstab? 
> 
> yes, via a subvol=root fstab entry. 

Has anyone tested subvolid=xxx works for rootfs yet? I know GRUB 2 will not 
resolve subvolid, it essentially treats subvols as folders, but does it only 
with pathnames, not ID number. If fstab uses subvolid for boot, then boot 
fails. I'm not sure if systemd and dracut will handle rootfs defined by 
subvolid. This is more stable, as the subvolume can be renamed or moved, and 
things still work. Whereas with subvol (name) things can break.

Chris Murphy
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