2011/2/22 Jóhann B. <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 14:51 -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: >> So what are your thoughts? Thanks, > > Will there be any performance penalties making this move? > Who knows, thats what testing is for :). There are some things that suck with BTRFS, but so it goes with filesystems. > I ran it on my workstation when F13 came out with updates+snapshots and while updating my desktop responsiveness was well not so good. > > Novice end users tools ( GUI ) and policy to clean those snapshots and perhaps storing those snapshots in it's own directory and or partition rather than directly on / need be in place before we implement this as an default. > They would be helpful, but not necessary. > I suggest people try it during the F15 atleast those that are considering as an default to catch any potential usability issues it did not eat any babes from me when I ran it. > > I think we should also ask ourselves these questions.. > > What benefit will this switch bring to the novice desktop end users? > Various things, better data integrity to start with, and if you install the yum-fs-snapshot you have the ability to rollback easily. > Will the novice desktop end user ever take advantages of any of the features that btrfs brings? > At the very least you get better data integrity via our checksumming and duplicate metadata on single spindle fs's. Thanks, Josef -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
