Well, yes and no, Stan. As a professional sysadmin, I don't particularly want to endanger data or make radical changes to production (or in many cases, even development or test) systems. While yes, it may sound like a "when all you have is a hammer" approach, it is an opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the new filesystem is a safe environment. From there, I will probably go with a VM that uses it.
That is why I wanted to put on an external drive... --b On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > The question you should be asking yourself is "Which filesystems best > fit my desired usage scenario?" instead of "Will btrfs work for this?" > > It seems you are placing a desire to run what you believe is a "cool > neat new etc" filesystem ahead of all other considerations. > > Pick the right tool for the job Brad. Don't pick a tool and then try to > use it for any/every job. > > You're doing it backwards. > > -- > Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikbsy74s3svs-frehqx8hx3irvhuahgyy45x...@mail.gmail.com
