From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:9335 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752388Ab2FLOwO (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:52:14 -0400 Received: from when.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:e4a9:1:5e26:aff:fe21:a162]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skull.electronsweatshop.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 94308429FA for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:52:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Randy Barlow To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Moving top level to a subvolume Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:52:10 -0400 Message-ID: <1477951.uUzcAEg64Z@when> In-Reply-To: References: <1339183466.55421.YahooMailNeo@web160803.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 01:53:23 AM Duncan wrote: > We get a lot of folks on this list who somehow miss the kernel warning, > and the wiki warning, and the general community knowledge, that btrfs is > still marked experimental and is still under heavy development. If > something goes wrong, as it often has for these folks when they post > here... I personally run Gentoo, but I've been told by some coworkers that the Ubuntu installer offers btrfs as an option to the users without marking it as experimental, unstable, or under development. I wonder if that is why we see so many people surprised when they lose their filesystems. Can anyone verify whether that is true of Ubuntu, or of any other Linux distributions? -- R