From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45835 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752503Ab3BUU61 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:58:27 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U8dE5-0008Ps-HT for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:58:45 +0100 Received: from h59ec0710.dkvnvan.sta.perspektivbredband.net ([89.236.7.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:58:45 +0100 Received: from spam by h59ec0710.dkvnvan.sta.perspektivbredband.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:58:45 +0100 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Bardur Arantsson Subject: Re: Another defrag question Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:58:16 +0100 Message-ID: References: <51264146.3070504@petaramesh.org> <1361462073.18057.23.camel@cwalton-XPS-8300> <512644DA.3050409@petaramesh.org> <20130221163844.GD14283@carfax.org.uk> <51265355.1020409@petaramesh.org> <20130221172502.GF14283@carfax.org.uk> <51265DB0.2060407@petaramesh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 In-Reply-To: <51265DB0.2060407@petaramesh.org> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/21/2013 06:47 PM, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: > Le 21/02/2013 18:25, Hugo Mills a écrit : >> Correct. But btrfs isn't at that stage yet. It's getting visibly >> closer, but it's not quite there. Hence the very strong recommendation >> to keep up with the latest code. Hugo. > > The matter is that BTRFS had many early adopters just because it is - > and has been for long now - in the mainline Linux kernel, so supposed > stable and good choice for the future. > > To be honest (and not wanting to troll, promised) this is the only > single reason for which I use BTRFS on 5 of my 6 machines at home - just > because I thought that "Just upgrade the distro every 6 months and it > will become better and better over time, no hassle, make my life easy". > Unfortunately many distros don't make it obvious, but Btrfs is still hidden behind a giant EXPERIMENTAL label in the kernel configuration. Regards,