[Cialug] BtrFS

[Scott Yates]

All that and this note from the Wiki that Shane linked:

Device *replace* and device *delete* insist on being able to read or
reconstruct all data. If any read fails due to an IO error, the
delete/replace operation is aborted and the administrator must remove or
replace the damaged data before trying again.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:07 AM Jim Cole <jrcole at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Btrfs-Warning-RAID5-RAID6
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:06 AM Theron Conrey <theron at conrey.org> wrote:
>
> > 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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