From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt_Thi=E9bault?= Subject: Re: btrfs, broken design? Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:11:57 +0100 Message-ID: <06598C10-801F-4969-83F9-9BB3B9149488@gmail.com> References: <1295558324-sup-1046@think> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: linux-btrfs To: Chester Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-ID: Ok, thanks, I will read the project wiki more carefully then :-) Beware however that Wikipedia is the first place to look for informatio= n for a lot of people (whether this is a good practice or not) and it c= urrently does not provide a very good advertisement to btrfs. Kind regards Le 21 janv. 2011 =E0 07:46, Chester a =E9crit : > Btrfs has its own wiki page at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org which yo= u > may find more helpful than what is on wikipedia. >=20 > 2011/1/20 Beno=EEt Thi=E9bault : >> Thanks for your answer >>=20 >> Le 20 janv. 2011 =E0 22:20, Chris Mason a =E9crit : >>=20 >>> There was a bug fixed as part of that discussion, and I think I als= o >>> better described the way the tree balancing works to Edward. >>=20 >> Maybe the wikipedia article should be modified then, because it is n= ot very reinsuring :-) >>=20 >>> A final release? We'll keep improving things for a long time. The >>> biggest missing feature today is btrfsck, which I'm working on full= time >>> right now. >>>=20 >>> -chris >>=20 >> Still on the wikipedia page, it's written "Btrfs 1.0 (with finalized= on-disk format) was originally slated for a late 2008 release,[5] but = a stable release has not been made as of January 2011.", which is also = very confusing. >>=20 >> According to you, is the version of btrfs in 2.6.37 ready for produc= tion? I mean, are there still chances that I may loose all my data if I= use btrfs? >>=20 >> Last question, do you know when the RAID-5 like capabilities will be= available? >>=20 >> Sorry to ask so many questions, I fully understand you and your team= are working very hard on the project, but I was very confused by the W= ikipedia article. >>=20 >> Kind regards, >>=20 >> Ben-- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrf= s" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>=20 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs= " in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html