On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:37:44PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Neil, what is the specific problems you are having with btrfs on "real" > sized storage devices (not for 1-2Gb devices, that's a different issue.) >
The remaining issues with btrfs that I'm aware of, (and please note, I'm really quite excited by it, it'll be great when it's ready) 1) On disk format - This was due to be stabilised by 2009, and it's still not. A standardised on disk format must be a pre-requisite to using it as a default file system. 2) File system support - various utilities still don't support btrfs, especially bootloaders (RedBoot, grub etc) 3) btrfs still does not handle all out-of-space conditions gracefully 4) lvm useage requires write-caching turned off, but if it's not, it can't handle the corruption 5) Failed checksums will not in any way initiate a repair Hope this helps, Neil -- Neil McGovern Software Development Team Leader, Intel:Core - Amino Communications _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
