On 11/12/2010 05:03 PM, clumens@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> We have been spending a lot of time and thought trying to scheme >> about how to accelerate btrfs. At this point, it is actually fairly >> stable but still missing key things (most notably a fsck that can >> fix the file system!). >> >> Last week at plumbers, we did get a large chunk of the btrfs >> developers together for a few hours and have been working to make >> sure that we have sufficient people working to get this done... > This is good information, and makes me feel even better about removing > the need for a btrfs command line option. > > What I mean about "we're not quite there yet" is that I don't really > want to change over to it as the default in anaconda until we (1) have a > release or two with it as a non-hidden option to get some feedback, and > (2) know what our strategy with it in a greater sense is. If it's going > to allow us to do all sorts of crazy new things, I'd like to enable the > crazy new things at the same time as we switch it in as the default. Sounds like a good plan to me. Remove the need for the command line option for F15+ Gather feedback for F15 and F16 Consider switching the default to BTRFS in F17. *DE could consider switching the default to use EXT4 directly without LVM. [1] I would think that users would love to experience the work that Theodore Tso has been doing [2] and what better way is it for them to do other then experiencing it first hand in F15 when it goes out the door.. JBG 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoDefaultLVM 2. http://free.linux.hp.com/~enw/ext4/2.6.36-rc6/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
