On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:53:38 +0200
Bob Marley <bobmar...@shiftmail.org> wrote:

> On 10/10/2014 03:58, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> * mount -o recovery
> >>    "Enable autorecovery attempts if a bad tree root is found at mount 
> >> time."
> > I'm confused why it's not the default yet. Maybe it's continuing to evolve 
> > at a pace that suggests something could sneak in that makes things worse? 
> > It is almost an oxymoron in that I'm manually enabling an autorecovery
> >
> > If true, maybe the closest indication we'd get of btrfs stablity is the 
> > default enabling of autorecovery.
> 
> No way!
> I wouldn't want a default like that.
> 
> If you think at distributed transactions: suppose a sync was issued on 
> both sides of a distributed transaction, then power was lost on one 
> side

What distributed transactions? Btrfs is not a clustered filesystem[1], it does
not support and likely will never support being mounted from multiple hosts at
the same time.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustered_file_system

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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