[Cialug] BtrFS

Shane Nehring shane at ntoast.com
Thu Oct 21 16:02:21 UTC 2021


Because the goal of the project starting out was to make a GPL licensed ZFS
clone, and it's not there yet.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 10:54 L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> The thought distilled in my mind overnight, .. would love to hear
> responses:
>
> We have been using BtrFS for many years for it's invaluable recovery
> options as a root partition (and as the default root FS for OpenSuSE), ..
> so I was understanbly confused at the presentation last night classifying
> it as "unfinished", or even "half baked".
>
> So, .. my question is this:
>
> Givem that the majority of installations ARE running a single device (e.g.
> SAN, HW RAID, etc.), why would the ability to run multiple devices have
> anything at all to do with the finish level of the file system??
>
> Really seems like a red herring to me, .. dissing a really useful
> filesystem with negatives that don't even apply?
>
>         TIA!
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