From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Ramsey Subject: Re: Release plan Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: List-ID: Miguel F Mascarenhas Sousa Filipe gmail.com> writes: [snip] > > 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... [snip] 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