Re: A little confused about what remains to make a stable release

[Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>]

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:46:30PM -0700, Anthony Roberts wrote:
> >   It's stable *for you* when it functions with the workloads *you*
> >expect of it, with a failure rate that is acceptable *to you*.
> 
> I think there's a few ancillary things like a working fsck needed
> before it can even be recommended for widespread use, even to users
> willing to risk any residual bugs. IIRC at this point the utilities
> don't even aspire to provide basic recovery functionality (though
> Chris has posted that fsck is coming).
> 
> Beyond that, the management capabilities at this point don't look
> ready for long term use in a production environment. By this I
> mean adding/removing disks,

   That much is already there and working.

> reshaping arrays, etc. Without that I
> might use BTRFS on top of LVM/RAID just like any other filesystem,
> and there's features I'm looking forward to even if I that's all
> I can do, but without robust management features there's certain
> environments where it just doesn't make sense yet.

   What do you think is missing? Could you create and maintain a
wishlist page on the wiki[1], and populate it with all the things that
people need for production use? (This is an ongoing task -- track
what's actually finished and remove it; track what's currently being
worked on and mark it as such; keep an eye on discussions on the
mailing list for things that people need...)

> There's one or two other things I'm keeping an eye on. That
> limitation on the number of hardlinks you can have in a directory
> is kinda irksome. Also, dedup needs a way to verify/dedup safely
> before people can start doing stuff like deduping live VM images.

   Hugo.

[1] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

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