You guys do an amazing job - I am blown away!

You guys do an amazing job - I am blown away!

[George Mitchell]

Two years ago I installed btrfs across 8 hard drives on my desktop 
system with the entire system ending up on btrfs RAID 1.  I did all of 
this with btrfs-progs-0.20.  Since that time I have been dreading 
updating my system because of fear that the old btrfs volumes would 
become unstable in the process.  I was finally driven to update by 
otherwise unresolvable security issues.  I went from 32bit OS to 64bit 
OS with new btrfs-progs 3.19.1.  I simply cannot believe that everything 
just worked without a hitch.  In terms of btrfs the upgrade from what 
was then "experimental" to what is now "stable" was totally 
transparent.  In the past two years I have had zero problems with btrfs 
involving multiple TB of data.  I really appreciate all that you guys 
have done to make btrfs such an amazing file system.

Re: You guys do an amazing job - I am blown away!

[Martin]

George,

Always good to see the occasional very positive feedback.

(Even from a non-developer such as myself! :-) )


I've been using various versions of btrfs on both test and production
systems for some time now. Always looks to be spectacular for the care
for backwards compatibility/safety included.

Never done a 32-bit -> 64-bit jump myself but there have been quite a
few leaps made on various hardware/software setups and all without a
hitch keeping the btrfs in place in-situ. Very much preferred compared
to the chore of instead having to read-and-rewrite multiple TBytes of data!


And all still 'experimental'... ;-)

Carry on the good developments!

Regards,
Martin



On 17/08/15 23:44, George Mitchell wrote:
> Two years ago I installed btrfs across 8 hard drives on my desktop
> system with the entire system ending up on btrfs RAID 1.  I did all of
> this with btrfs-progs-0.20.  Since that time I have been dreading
> updating my system because of fear that the old btrfs volumes would
> become unstable in the process.  I was finally driven to update by
> otherwise unresolvable security issues.  I went from 32bit OS to 64bit
> OS with new btrfs-progs 3.19.1.  I simply cannot believe that everything
> just worked without a hitch.  In terms of btrfs the upgrade from what
> was then "experimental" to what is now "stable" was totally
> transparent.  In the past two years I have had zero problems with btrfs
> involving multiple TB of data.  I really appreciate all that you guys
> have done to make btrfs such an amazing file system.