On 2014-10-21 05:29, Duncan wrote:
> David Sterba posted on Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:34:03 +0200 as excerpted:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 01:33:37PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
>>> I'd like to make it default with the 3.17 release of btrfs-progs.
>>> Please let me know if you have objections.
>>
>> For the record, 3.17 will not change the defaults. The timing of the
>> poll was very bad to get enough feedback before the release. Let's keep
>> it open for now.
>
> FWIW my own results agree with yours, I've had no problem with skinny-
> metadata here, and it has been my default now for a couple backup-and-new-
> mkfs.btrfs generations, now.
>
> As you know there were some problems with it in the first kernel cycle or
> two after it was introduced as an option, and I waited awhile until they
> died down before trying it here, but as I said, no problems since I
> switched it on, and I've been running it awhile now.
>
> So defaulting to skinny-metadata looks good from here. =:^)
>
Same here, I've been using it on all my systems since I switched from 
3.15 to 3.16, and have had no issues whatsoever.