On 10/07/2014 11:04 AM, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Gene Czarcinski
<gczarcin...@gmail.com <mailto:gczarcin...@gmail.com>> wrote:
However, there are some things that could be done to make it
easier for those of us who want to make it easier to install
Fedora onto a btrfs filesystem.
My point was that unless and until there is more support for BTRFS
by members of the Fedora Project, btrfs cannot be made the
default. That is, *IF* it makes sense to have it be the default.
That is a good point. I've been using BTRFS Raid 6 across 6 1TB
drives for over a year now with (knock on wood) no issues. I did this
because of the simplicity of setting up RAID under BTRFS and for me at
least that is the biggest attraction. Maybe I'm mistaken, but there
almost seemed (and still is, IMO) an active discouragement for people
to use this configuration. You're not going to attract people to use
and test something if you simultaneously tell them it is toxic. Also,
you can't jump from don't use it, it isn't safe to ok, let's make it
the system default.
I also use raid (d=raid0, m=raid1) and it is nice to have a multidevice
btrfs volume where you can add an additional device to the volume and
also have btrfs shuffle the data to spread it over all the devices.
Also, if there are bugs then they need to be discovered and fixed. They
will not get discovered unless btrfs is used. If the btrfs developers
knew there are a bug, it would have been already fixed.
Gene
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