Re: Taking the BTRFS plunge

2014-07-23 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 17, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Lists wrote: > As a ZFS on Linux user, I noticed that there are btrfs packages for Fedora > 20. Can anybody here comment on their stability? Are you adventurous enough > to use btrfs on root ? Has it saved your data? Have you lost data because of > it? > > Contex

RE: Taking the BTRFS plunge

2014-07-18 Thread J.Witvliet
FYI, i'm using BTRFS for over a year, Even though it is not a fedora machine, the upstream code remains the same I guess. I don't use advanced features of btrfs, (I stil use lvm on top of softraid) but it has proven for me (in this order) - reliable enough (never data loss, even after power incid

Re: Taking the BTRFS plunge

2014-07-17 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Lists wrote: > Can anybody here comment on their stability? I used a complicated full-drive btrfs for over a year on Arch Linux with root, home, opt, pkg, etc. folders as subvolumes with every hour snapshotting. Anaconda doesn't allow you to install such an elab

Re: Taking the BTRFS plunge

2014-07-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 15:40 -0700, Lists wrote: > On 07/17/2014 03:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 15:08 -0700, Lists wrote: > >> As a ZFS on Linux user, I noticed that there are btrfs packages for > >> Fedora 20. Can anybody here comment on their stability? Are you > >>

Re: Taking the BTRFS plunge

2014-07-17 Thread Lists
On 07/17/2014 03:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 15:08 -0700, Lists wrote: As a ZFS on Linux user, I noticed that there are btrfs packages for Fedora 20. Can anybody here comment on their stability? Are you adventurous enough to use btrfs on root ? Has it saved your data?

Re: Taking the BTRFS plunge

2014-07-17 Thread Lawrence E Graves
I have been using BTRFS for about a year now and I haven't had any problems. I think it is stable enough for home use. I can't speak on business use. On 07/17/2014 04:08 PM, Lists wrote: As a ZFS on Linux user, I noticed that there are btrfs packages for Fedora 20. Can anybody here comment on t

Re: Taking the BTRFS plunge

2014-07-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 15:08 -0700, Lists wrote: > As a ZFS on Linux user, I noticed that there are btrfs packages for > Fedora 20. Can anybody here comment on their stability? Are you > adventurous enough to use btrfs on root ? Has it saved your data? Have > you lost data because of it? > > Con