From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-la0-f50.google.com ([209.85.215.50]:64300 "EHLO mail-la0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932273AbaJUMhE (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:37:04 -0400 Received: by mail-la0-f50.google.com with SMTP id s18so935747lam.23 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 05:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54465320.70601@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:35:44 +0300 From: Konstantinos Skarlatos MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Austin S Hemmelgarn CC: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Poll: time to switch skinny-metadata on by default? References: <20141016113337.GC22943@twin.jikos.cz> <20141020163403.GW22943@twin.jikos.cz> <54463D45.1040309@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54463D45.1040309@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 21/10/2014 2:02 μμ, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > 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. > I am using skinny-metadata for years, and only once had an issue with it. It was with scrub and was fixed by Liu Bo[1], so i think skinny-metadata is mature enough be a default. [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg34493.html -- Konstantinos Skarlatos