Status of BTRFS

Status of BTRFS

[Edward Ned Harvey]

Is this a good place to get a clue about the status of BTRFS?=A0 Like .=
=2E.=A0 Is
it usable yet, and stuff like that?

Thank you...

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Re: Status of BTRFS

[Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen]

On 16 July 2010 13:55, Edward Ned Harvey <kernel@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> Is this a good place to get a clue about the status of BTRFS?=C2=A0 L=
ike ...=C2=A0 Is
> it usable yet, and stuff like that?
>
> Thank you...
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It has been in a good state for quite a while. There seems to be quite
a lot of people who use it on enterprise-grade hardware and servers
that require high reliability.
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RE: Status of BTRFS

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen [mailto:gonx@overclocked.net]
> 
> On 16 July 2010 13:55, Edward Ned Harvey <kernel@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> > Is this a good place to get a clue about the status of BTRFS?  Like
> ...  Is
> > it usable yet, and stuff like that?
> >
> 
> It has been in a good state for quite a while. There seems to be quite
> a lot of people who use it on enterprise-grade hardware and servers
> that require high reliability.

Is it included in any distributions yet?  Do you just need to build the latest kernel or something like that?  Download the source code, and follow what it says in the INSTALL file?

Re: Status of BTRFS

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:14:49AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > From: Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen [mailto:gonx@overclocked.net]
> > 
> > On 16 July 2010 13:55, Edward Ned Harvey <kernel@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> > > Is this a good place to get a clue about the status of BTRFS?  Like
> > ...  Is
> > > it usable yet, and stuff like that?
> > >
> > 
> > It has been in a good state for quite a while. There seems to be quite
> > a lot of people who use it on enterprise-grade hardware and servers
> > that require high reliability.
> 
> Is it included in any distributions yet?  Do you just need to build the latest kernel or something like that?  Download the source code, and follow what it says in the INSTALL file?

  Of course it is. Fedora installer allows btrfs since for few releases now.

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Re: Status of BTRFS

[Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen]

On 16 July 2010 14:16, Tomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:14:49AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> > From: Sebastian 'gonX' Jensen [mailto:gonx@overclocked.net]
>> >
>> > On 16 July 2010 13:55, Edward Ned Harvey <kernel@nedharvey.com> wr=
ote:
>> > > Is this a good place to get a clue about the status of BTRFS? =C2=
=A0Like
>> > ... =C2=A0Is
>> > > it usable yet, and stuff like that?
>> > >
>> >
>> > It has been in a good state for quite a while. There seems to be q=
uite
>> > a lot of people who use it on enterprise-grade hardware and server=
s
>> > that require high reliability.
>>
>> Is it included in any distributions yet? =C2=A0Do you just need to b=
uild the latest kernel or something like that? =C2=A0Download the sourc=
e code, and follow what it says in the INSTALL file?
>
> =C2=A0Of course it is. Fedora installer allows btrfs since for few re=
leases now.
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Yes, Fedora is one of the releases that has officially supported it
for a while now. Additionally an initrd hook for btrfs has just been
implemented for Arch Linux, so you might see btrfs being an option for
that in the next version of the installer :-)

Regards,
Sebastian J.
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Re: Status of BTRFS

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

> Yes, Fedora is one of the releases that has officially supported it
> for a while now. Additionally an initrd hook for btrfs has just
> been implemented for Arch Linux, so you might see btrfs being an
> option for that in the next version of the installer :-)

I also believe that Ubuntu 10.10 is slated to have it; I think it's in the
current alpha, though based on my reading, there are still some rough
edges.  I think Fedora's actually got a rollback feature, using snapshots,
which should be super nice -- hopefully, others come up with similar
features to take advantage of btrfs's features.

-Ken


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Re: Status of BTRFS

[Sander]

Ken D'Ambrosio wrote (ao):
> > Edward Ned Harvey wrote (ao):
> > > Is it included in any distributions yet?
> > 
> > Yes, Fedora is one of the releases that has officially supported it
> > for a while now.
> > been implemented for Arch Linux, so you might see btrfs being an
> > option for that in the next version of the installer :-)
> 
> I also believe that Ubuntu 10.10 is slated to have it; I think it's in the
> current alpha, though based on my reading, there are still some rough
> edges.

Btrfs is in Ubuntu 10.10 alpha and that installs and works oke is my
experience.

	Sander

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Re: Status of BTRFS

[Chris Samuel]

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On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:14:49 pm Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

> Is it included in any distributions yet?

You can use it after installation in Ubuntu 10.04.  In fact
I'm pretty sure it was enabled in the kernel of 9.10 too.

It's not (yet) an option for installation though.

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Re: Status of BTRFS

[Aaron Toponce]

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On 07/17/2010 11:11 PM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:14:49 pm Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> Is it included in any distributions yet?
> 
> You can use it after installation in Ubuntu 10.04.  In fact
> I'm pretty sure it was enabled in the kernel of 9.10 too.
> 
> It's not (yet) an option for installation though.

It's included as an installation choice with openSUSE 11.3.

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Re: Status of BTRFS

[Josef Bacik]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 07:55:26AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> Is this a good place to get a clue about the status of BTRFS?=A0 Like=
 ...=A0 Is
> it usable yet, and stuff like that?
>=20

Use it if you don't care about the data on your box or do regular backu=
ps.  All
of us developers run it on our workstations without much of an issue th=
ough.
Thanks,

Josef
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Re: Status of BTRFS

[Johannes Hirte]

Am Freitag 16 Juli 2010, 13:55:26 schrieb Edward Ned Harvey:
> Is this a good place to get a clue about the status of BTRFS?  Like ...  Is
> it usable yet, and stuff like that?
> 
> Thank you...

I wouldn't suggest to use it in productive environments. Especially as the 
error handling is very rudimentarily for now. If you run into errors, you 
won't be able to repair the filesystem. For productive environments there are 
also way to much situations where the whole kernel panics instead only the 
affected filesystem. Another construction area is still the ENOSPC handling.

regards,
  Johannes