On 05/15/2013 05:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 05/15/2013 04:39 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
I was planning to upgrade to F19 soon, and I kind-of care about the data on
that system (I have backup, but corruption would not be welcome, just for the
lost time reason). Do people recommend sticking with it? holding off the
upgrade? switching back to ext4?
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Is_btrfs_stable.3F is a reasonably
good answer to that question. I would note that traditional linux filesystems
have a very long history and time to mature including XFS and Ext4 and only
check for metadata integrity unlike Btrfs. If you have a good (and frequent)
backup system, it might be worth riding it out but you will have to evaluate
the risks and make that determination of your own.
FWIW, I am using Btrfs without any (known) issues for a while but I also have
almost no data in my laptop that I cannot afford to lose since everything
important is an external backup disk and really important files are in another
laptop as well.
Rahul
The right answer is of course to always back up every file system since disk
dies, bugs eat data, etc :)
If you have backups and want to help btrfs settle in, it is really valuable to
have people on it.
btrfs is getting more stable, but for critical data I would suggest using xfs or
ext4.
Ric
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