Re: A little confused about what remains to make a stable release

2010-11-18 Thread Anthony Roberts
Beyond that, the management capabilities at this point don't look ready for long term use in a production environment. By this I mean adding/removing disks, That much is already there and working. Only for the basics though, yes? Disks can be added, but IIRC you can't really control RAID

Re: A little confused about what remains to make a stable release

2010-11-17 Thread Anthony Roberts
Hello, It's stable *for you* when it functions with the workloads *you* expect of it, with a failure rate that is acceptable *to you*. I think there's a few ancillary things like a working fsck needed before it can even be recommended for widespread use, even to users willing to risk any

Re: Number of hard links limit

2010-08-02 Thread Anthony Roberts
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 15:05:56 +0200, Xavier Nicollet nicol...@jeru.org wrote: Le 02 août 2010 à 14:40, Sami Liedes a écrit: [BTRFS supports only 256 hard-links per directory ...] but if it indeed needs a disk format change, I think this should be considered before the format is set in stone. I

Re: Is there a more aggressive fixer than btrfsck?

2010-06-29 Thread Anthony Roberts
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:34:13 +0200, Hubert Kario h...@qbs.com.pl wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 12:37:45 Daniel Kozlowski wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet rdele...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Daniel Kozlowski

Re: questions about GRUB and BTRFS

2009-02-25 Thread Anthony Roberts
Hi Chris, Cheers for the informative response. :) In the ideal implementation, the grub.conf has a list of devices it is allowed to scan, and we put the FS uuid directly in there, let grub scan them and we'll be able to boot off multiple volumes in that way. Hm... perhaps it doesn't even

questions about GRUB and BTRFS

2009-02-24 Thread Anthony Roberts
Hi, A quick googling turns up posts that GRUB support for BTRFS is planned. My curiosity is more towards how this will be managed, because the way this is currently implemented with software RAID/LVM is quite haphazard. I therefore have some questions about GRUB + BTRFS: -With GRUB booting, it's

Re: btrfs and swap files on SSD's ?

2009-01-20 Thread Anthony Roberts
The second is an implementation detail of the linux swap file code. It expects filesystems don't move blocks around, and takes a mapping of the blocks in the FS once. This doesn't work with btrfs because we do move blocks around all the time. That's interesting. I have a few questions: