[Cialug] BtrFS

[Theron Conrey]

I think at some point striving for feature parity so something that
continues to evolve misses the opportunities to speak to the strengths it
currently has.  "half baked" may be unfair, but "unfinished" applies to
everything, ZFS included.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:03 AM Shane Nehring <shane at ntoast.com> wrote:

> 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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