Re: btrfs as default filesystem for F22?

Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:39:53 -0400



    On 10/07/2014 11:04 AM, Gerald B. Cox
      wrote:

    
          On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Gene
            Czarcinski <gczarcinski@xxxxxxxxx>
            wrote:

            
              However, there are
                some things that could be done to make it easier for
                those of us who want to make it easier to install Fedora
                onto a btrfs filesystem.

                
                My point was that unless and until there is more support
                for BTRFS by members of the Fedora
                Project, btrfs cannot be made the
                default.  That is, IF it makes sense to have it
                be the default.
            
            
            That is a good point.  I've been using BTRFS Raid 6
              across 6 1TB drives for over a year now with (knock on
              wood) no issues.  I did this because of the simplicity of
              setting up RAID under BTRFS and for me at least that is
              the biggest attraction.  Maybe I'm mistaken, but there
              almost seemed (and still is, IMO) an active discouragement
              for people to use this configuration.  You're not going to
              attract people to use and test something if you
              simultaneously tell them it is toxic.  Also, you can't
              jump from don't use it, it isn't safe to ok, let's make it
              the system default.  
          
        
    I also use raid (d=raid0, m=raid1) and it is nice to have a
    multidevice btrfs volume where you can add an additional device to
    the volume and also have btrfs shuffle the data to spread  it over
    all the devices.

    
    Also, if there are bugs then they need to be discovered and fixed. 
    They will not get discovered unless btrfs is used.  If the btrfs
    developers knew there are a bug, it would have been already fixed.

    
    Gene

    
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