Re: Release plan

[Mike Ramsey <MikeJRamsey@comcast.net>]

Miguel F Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe <miguel.filipe <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> 
> You mean ZFS, but I think everybody who read this "self-corrected" your typo.

Yes, I mean ZFS.  ZFS used to be known as the Zettapoint File System.  
I guess my subconsciousness couldn't let go of the "point".
 
[snip]
> 
> File systems take a long time to mature, btrfs is stable enough for
> daily use, has long has you don't use it for sensitive/critical data.
> There are still some problems, the most annoying being the premature
> "out of space"/"disc full" errors.
> I would say that in time for Fedora 12, you will probably have a btrfs
> more usable for the common user, but still not advised for the faint
> of heart.
> 
> Consider the time that ext4 took to mature and for people to trust it.
> Ext4 is stable for quite some months, but even now, the majority of
> recent distro builds choose ext3 has the default file system.
> 
> Again.. file systems take quite a bit of time to mature...
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I know.  A schedule has an amazing way of focusing people on what is 
important.  There may be ten things that should be done but not all ten 
things  need to be done.  :-)

--Best regards,
--Mike Ramsey