Rich Freeman posted on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:53:50 -0500 as excerpted: > From what I've seen as long as you keep things simple, and don't have > heavy loads, you're at least reasonably likely to get by unscathed. I'd > definitely keep good backups though. Just read the mailing lists, > or for kicks run xfs-test
> Oh, and go ahead and try filling up your disk some time. If your kernel > is recent enough it might not panic when you get down to a few GB left. > > I'm eager for the rise of btrfs - it IS the filesystem of the future. > However, that cuts both ways right now. That's about right... along with the caveat that if something /does/ go wrong on your not too corner-case, generally normal, lightly loaded system, while there are recovery tools for /some/ situations, the normal distribution btrfsck is read-only. The freshly sort-of available but still rather hidden in the DANGER, DON'T EVER USE branch error-correcting btrfsck, is still under very heavy stress testing internally by Oracle QA. (As a result of those tests, there's a load of fixes headed to Linus for inclusion, discovered just since 3.3-rc1. As a result of /that/ 3.3 should be the most stable btrfs yet, but that's still far from saying it's stable!) And yes, "filesystem of the future" DOES cut both ways, ATM. It's an apt description and I too am seriously looking forward to btrfs. But it's definitely NOT the "filesystem of now", for sure! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
