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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: "Benoît Thiébault" <benoit.thiebault@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: btrfs, broken design?
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:20:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295558324-sup-1046@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC13E050-AA91-4DCA-B171-9CA55D537DB7@gmail.com>

Excerpts from Beno=C3=AEt Thi=C3=A9bault's message of 2011-01-20 16:06:=
21 -0500:
> Hi everyone,
>=20
> I am very interested in the features provided by btrfs.
>=20
> I know it is still under active development and thus do not consider =
using it yet "in production", but the Wikipedia page describing btrfs c=
ontains a very frightening sentence:
> "Edward Shiskin, one of the Reiser4 developers now working for Redhat=
, got asked in Q2/2010 to look more detailled into Btrfs and judged tha=
t it has a broken design. This design may lead in some cases to out of =
space problems."
>=20
> I have read the linked mail exchange in the mailing list but it is ve=
ry technical and I am not quite sure I understood everything. Could you=
 please tell me if the problem has been fixed since?

There was a bug fixed as part of that discussion, and I think I also
better described the way the tree balancing works to Edward.

>=20
> Is there a planned date for the final release of btrfs?

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 tim=
e
right now.

-chris
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-20 21:20 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 [this message]
2011-01-21  5:25   ` Benoît Thiébault
2011-01-21  6:46     ` Chester
2011-01-21  8:11       ` Benoît Thiébault
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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