waxhead wrote: > Jukka Larja wrote: >> waxhead wrote 24.6.2018 klo 1.01: >>> Nikolay Borisov wrote: >>>> >>>> On 22.06.2018 02:13, waxhead wrote: >>>>> According to this: >>>>> >>>>> https://stratis-storage.github.io/StratisSoftwareDesign.pdf >>>>> Page 4 , section 1.2 >>>>> >>>>> It claims that BTRFS still have significant technical issues that may >>>>> never be resolved. >>>>> Could someone shed some light on exactly what these technical issues >>>>> might be?! What are BTRFS biggest technical problems? >>>> >>>> That's a question that needs to be directed at the author of the >>>> statement. >>>> >>> I think not, and here's why: I am asking the BTRFS developers a >>> general question , with some basis as to why I became curious. The >>> question is simply what (if any) are the biggest technical issues in >>> BTRFS because one must expect that if anyone is going to give me a >>> credible answer it must be the people that hack on BTRFS and >>> understand what they are working on and not the stratis guys. It would >>> surprise me if they knew better than the BTRFS devs. >> >> I think the problem with that question is that it is too general. >> Duncan's post already highlights several things that could be a >> significant problem for some user while being non-issue for most. >> Without more specific problem description, best you can hope for is >> speculation on things that Btrfs currently does badly. >> >> -Jukka Larja > > Well, I still don't agree (apparently I am starting to become > difficult). There is a "roadmap" on the BTRFS wiki that describes > features implemented and feature planned for example. Naturally people > are working on improvements to existing features and prep-work for new > features. If some of this work is not moving ahead due to design issues > it sounds likely that someone would know about it by now.
This one doesn't seem to be moving ahead, while it seems like a very promising one: Hot data tracking and moving to faster devices (or provided on the generic VFS layer) It would be really fantastic to just add a ssd to a pool of hdd's and have fsync sensitive stuff run normally (dpkg on raid10 with 50 snapshots currently can take hours to do a few minute job) > > -- > 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
