Ready for production ?

Ready for production ?

[David Arendt]

Hi,

One thread with exactly this subject was started 12 months ago. So it
would be interested to make the point once again.

I am actually using nilfs2 on a volume where data integrity isn't
important and didn't have any problems until now.

So what would the developers say ? Is it ready for production ?

Congratulations for this very good file system, I really like the idea
behind it.
Bye,
David Arendt

Re: Ready for production ?

[Ryusuke Konishi]

Hi,

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:44:38 +0200, David Arendt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One thread with exactly this subject was started 12 months ago. So it
> would be interested to make the point once again.
> 
> I am actually using nilfs2 on a volume where data integrity isn't
> important and didn't have any problems until now.
> 
> So what would the developers say ? Is it ready for production ?

It's up to you. ;)

We aim to apply nilfs to commercial products, and we use it daily for
laptops, desktop machines and a shared storage server (samba server).

However, we think still it needs further testing, debugging efforts,
performance improvement, enhancement of administrative tools, and so
forth.  At least for the stability, it was dramatically improved in
the past year.

> Congratulations for this very good file system, I really like the idea
> behind it.

I'm grad you liked it.

Cheers,
Ryusuke Konishi

Re: Ready for production ?

[Daniel Phillips]

On Thursday 16 October 2008 23:09, Ryusuke Konishi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:44:38 +0200, David Arendt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > One thread with exactly this subject was started 12 months ago. So it
> > would be interested to make the point once again.
> > 
> > I am actually using nilfs2 on a volume where data integrity isn't
> > important and didn't have any problems until now.
> > 
> > So what would the developers say ? Is it ready for production ?
> 
> It's up to you. ;)
> 
> We aim to apply nilfs to commercial products, and we use it daily for
> laptops, desktop machines and a shared storage server (samba server).
> 
> However, we think still it needs further testing, debugging efforts,
> performance improvement, enhancement of administrative tools, and so
> forth.  At least for the stability, it was dramatically improved in
> the past year.

I don't think you should hold back from merging with mainline just
because of stability problems.  If you are mostly working except for
some small, hard to find problems, then get it merged, tell everybody
about the problems, and let people go hunt for them.  That is what
the open source process is about.

From what I can see, you are ready to go start the merging process
now.

Regards,

Daniel

Re: Ready for production ?

[Ryusuke Konishi]

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:15:30 -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> I don't think you should hold back from merging with mainline just
> because of stability problems.  If you are mostly working except for
> some small, hard to find problems, then get it merged, tell everybody
> about the problems, and let people go hunt for them.  That is what
> the open source process is about.
> From what I can see, you are ready to go start the merging process
> now.

Thanks for the comment.

I have already submitted kernel patches of the nilfs2 to LKML, and now
the nilfs2 is in the Andrew's -mm patch set.  Yes, I would like to
proceed merging with mainline, and I'm really working on that in
parallel.  Your point is what I want to do.

The current focus is whether the nilfs2 is accepted by the kernel
community or not.  I'd like to accelerate activity for the merging,
however I cannot work full-time for this.  I would be thankful if
someone could help me for it. ;)

With regards,
Ryusuke Konishi