Mitch Harder posted on Sat, 09 Aug 2014 23:57:19 -0500 as excerpted: > On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> So by the time of actual .0 release, [the kernel] really is quite >> stable, and no longer development kernel. >> > I can't say I've observed that to be the case with Btrfs. I know there > is a core group of developers working very hard on testing the Btrfs > updates in the _rc kernels, but once that .0 kernel hits the streets, > the extra exposure to all the various combinations of hardware and > options has been know to discover new issues. I think this is nearly > unavoidable given the pace of Btrfs development.
That's because, despite the (IMO premature) recent removal of all the warnings to the contrary, btrfs itself isn't stable yet. I'd argue that a 3.x.0 kernel is in general more stable than any btrfs to date, tho in both cases there's certainly corner-cases that are markedly more unstable (if they run at all) than the general case. Which means at this point it's a rather dramatic stability inversion to be afraid of 3.x.0 kernels while all the while running btrfs on the same systems. (It is worth noting, however, that say a temperature sensor driver or a camera driver could get away with the level of working-for-most-people- most-of-the-time level of stability that is btrfs at this point, and be considered reasonably stable. But people tend to be rather more conservative when it's their data, not just a temperature sample or a camera shot here or there, going missing, and filesystems therefore have a rather higher threshold definition to hit for really being stable. And that's as it /should/ be, because it /is/ people's data in the balance.) -- 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 -- 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
