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From: "Benoît Thiébault" <benoit.thiebault@gmail.com>
To: Chester <somethingsome2000@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: btrfs, broken design?
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:11:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <06598C10-801F-4969-83F9-9BB3B9149488@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikGPRrdaj2SO5ZwjD8pZEVNj4pBM8X_iEAATu0G@mail.gmail.com>

Ok, thanks, I will read the project wiki more carefully then :-)
Beware however that Wikipedia is the first place to look for informatio=
n for a lot of people (whether this is a good practice or not) and it c=
urrently does not provide a very good advertisement to btrfs.

Kind regards

Le 21 janv. 2011 =E0 07:46, Chester a =E9crit :

> Btrfs has its own wiki page at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org which yo=
u
> may find more helpful than what is on wikipedia.
>=20
> 2011/1/20 Beno=EEt Thi=E9bault <benoit.thiebault@gmail.com>:
>> Thanks for your answer
>>=20
>> Le 20 janv. 2011 =E0 22:20, Chris Mason a =E9crit :
>>=20
>>> There was a bug fixed as part of that discussion, and I think I als=
o
>>> better described the way the tree balancing works to Edward.
>>=20
>> Maybe the wikipedia article should be modified then, because it is n=
ot very reinsuring :-)
>>=20
>>> A final release?  We'll keep improving things for a long time.  The
>>> biggest missing feature today is btrfsck, which I'm working on full=
 time
>>> right now.
>>>=20
>>> -chris
>>=20
>> Still on the wikipedia page, it's written "Btrfs 1.0 (with finalized=
 on-disk format) was originally slated for a late 2008 release,[5] but =
a stable release has not been made as of January 2011.", which is also =
very confusing.
>>=20
>> According to you, is the version of btrfs in 2.6.37 ready for produc=
tion? I mean, are there still chances that I may loose all my data if I=
 use btrfs?
>>=20
>> Last question, do you know when the RAID-5 like capabilities will be=
 available?
>>=20
>> Sorry to ask so many questions, I fully understand you and your team=
 are working very hard on the project, but I was very confused by the W=
ikipedia article.
>>=20
>> Kind regards,
>>=20
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-20 21:06 btrfs, broken design? Benoît Thiébault
2011-01-20 21:20 ` Chris Mason
2011-01-21  5:25   ` Benoît Thiébault
2011-01-21  6:46     ` Chester
2011-01-21  8:11       ` Benoît Thiébault [this message]
2011-01-21  8:21         ` Hubert Kario
2011-01-21  9:54   ` version (was: btrfs, broken design?) Helmut Hullen
2011-01-21 12:21     ` Hugo Mills
2011-01-21 14:10       ` version Helmut Hullen
2011-01-21 14:32     ` version (was: btrfs, broken design?) Diego Calleja
2011-01-21 14:55       ` version Helmut Hullen
2011-01-21 15:12         ` version Hugo Mills
2011-01-21 15:19           ` version Helmut Hullen
2011-01-24  3:20         ` version Chris Samuel
2011-01-24  8:33           ` version Helmut Hullen
2011-01-24 21:14             ` version Johannes Hirte
2011-01-24 21:39               ` version Helmut Hullen
2011-01-24 22:46                 ` version Chris Samuel
2011-01-25  1:03                   ` version Chris Mason
2011-01-25  6:43                   ` version Helmut Hullen
2011-01-25 14:37                   ` version Helmut Hullen
2011-01-27  5:02                     ` 2.6.38-rc2 oops's when rebalancing on different size drives (was Re: version) Chris Samuel
2011-01-27  7:45                     ` version Chris Mason
2011-01-27  8:16                       ` version Helmut Hullen
2011-01-27 13:28                       ` version Helmut Hullen
2011-01-27 13:49                       ` no space left (was: version) Helmut Hullen
2011-01-26 10:13       ` version (was: btrfs, broken design?) Erik Logtenberg
2011-01-26 14:13         ` Diego Calleja

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