The Ubuntu wiki does not(in a straight-forward way) say BTRFS is experimental and unstable. It looks like they copied and pasted from the BTRFS official Wiki. Link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/btrfs
I do not have an account on the BTRFS wiki, but I believe changing the first paragraphs to something like what I included at the bottom. The big change is that we need to specifically and in big bold letters say that BTRFS is experimental and unstable as well as outline that BTRFS shouldn't be used on data where loss would cause headaches. I don't think that as is we draw enough attention to these facts. We are assuming that by saying(on the Wiki) "Btrfs is under heavy development" people will realize that it is experimental and unstable. Right after that we say that "every effort is being made to keep the filesystem stable and fast" which reads more like, "we are making every effort to KEEP it stable and fast". This ambiguity would lead users to believe that BTRFS is fast and stable(instead of that "we are attempting to have it be fast and stable") ---- Btrfs is under heavy development, but while every effort is being made to keep the filesystem stable and fast, it is still marked as [bold][bold]experimental and unstable[/bold][/bold]. Btrfs should not yet be used on data where loss would cause headaches. Because of the speed of development, you should run the latest kernel you can (either the latest release kernel from kernel.org, or the latest -rc kernel. Please email the Btrfs mailing list if you have any problems or questions while using Btrfs. ---- On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Randy Barlow <ra...@electronsweatshop.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 01:53:23 AM Duncan wrote: > > We get a lot of folks on this list who somehow miss the kernel warning, > > and the wiki warning, and the general community knowledge, that btrfs is > > still marked experimental and is still under heavy development. If > > something goes wrong, as it often has for these folks when they post > > here... > > I personally run Gentoo, but I've been told by some coworkers that the Ubuntu > installer offers btrfs as an option to the users without marking it as > experimental, unstable, or under development. I wonder if that is why we see > so many people surprised when they lose their filesystems. Can anyone verify > whether that is true of Ubuntu, or of any other Linux distributions? > > -- > R > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
