On 05/20/2014 04:01 AM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
On 05/19/2014 06:56 AM, Dan Mons wrote:
On 15 May 2014 14:35, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
it is up to those developers and users to test their preferred combination.
Not sure if this was quoting me or someone else. BtrFS is in-tree for
most distros these days, and RHEL is putting it in as a "technology
preview" in 7, which likely means it'll be supported in a point
release down the road somewhere. My question was merely if that's
going to be a bigger emphasis for Gluster.org folks to test into the
future, or if XFS is going to remain the default/recommended for a lot
longer yet.
If the answer is "it depends on our customers' needs", then put me
down as one who needs something better than XFS. I'll happily put in
the hard yards to test BtrFS with GlusterFS, but at the same time I'm
keen to know if that's a wise use of my time or a complete waste of my
time if I'm deviating too far from what RedHat/Gluster.org is planning
on blessing in the future.
From a gluster.org perspective, btrfs is certainly very interesting.
Integrating with btrfs and exposing its capabilities like bitrot, snapshots
etc. through glusterfs is on the cards.
There have been few reports of using glusterfs over btrfs in the community. I
would definitely be interested in hearing more feedback and addressing issues
in this combination by collaborating with the btrfs community.
Regards,
Vijay
I agree that btrfs is an interesting technology and it would be great to have
people work on it to make it more stable and see what it can do for us in gluster.
That said, I think that XFS will continue to be the most stable and high
performance file system for the next few years and has become increasingly
common across many distros and in places like openstack :) Always interesting
to hear what you find worrying about XFS or why it does not meet your needs.
ric
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