From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39323 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790Ab3BVFz5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:55:57 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U8lcF-0000Y4-8I for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:56:15 +0100 Received: from h59ec0710.dkvnvan.sta.perspektivbredband.net ([89.236.7.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:56:15 +0100 Received: from spam by h59ec0710.dkvnvan.sta.perspektivbredband.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:56:15 +0100 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Bardur Arantsson Subject: Re: Another defrag question Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:55:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <51264146.3070504@petaramesh.org> <1361462073.18057.23.camel@cwalton-XPS-8300> <512644DA.3050409@petaramesh.org> <20130221163844.GD14283@carfax.org.uk> <51265355.1020409@petaramesh.org> <20130221172502.GF14283@carfax.org.uk> <51265DB0.2060407@petaramesh.org> <20130221215602.GH27541@twin.jikos.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <20130221215602.GH27541@twin.jikos.cz> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/21/2013 10:56 PM, David Sterba wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:58:16PM +0100, Bardur Arantsson wrote: >> On 02/21/2013 06:47 PM, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: >>> Le 21/02/2013 18:25, Hugo Mills a écrit : >>>> Correct. But btrfs isn't at that stage yet. It's getting visibly >>>> closer, but it's not quite there. Hence the very strong recommendation >>>> to keep up with the latest code. Hugo. >>> >>> The matter is that BTRFS had many early adopters just because it is - >>> and has been for long now - in the mainline Linux kernel, so supposed >>> stable and good choice for the future. >>> >>> To be honest (and not wanting to troll, promised) this is the only >>> single reason for which I use BTRFS on 5 of my 6 machines at home - just >>> because I thought that "Just upgrade the distro every 6 months and it >>> will become better and better over time, no hassle, make my life easy". >>> >> >> Unfortunately many distros don't make it obvious, but Btrfs is still >> hidden behind a giant EXPERIMENTAL label in the kernel configuration. > > Removed in 3.9-rc1 as a part of a broad Kconfig cleanup > [--snip--] > > is it still experimental then? Interesting, but IMO having the experimental label taken off is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for $X to be considered stable :). Regards,