Anyone else trying out the new btrfs file system?

[Charlie Brune]

On 05/23/2010 02:22 PM, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:03 PM, NoOp<glgxg at sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
>    
>> On 05/23/2010 10:47 AM, Charlie Brune wrote:
>>      
>>> I've been looking at the new "btrfs" file system and it looks promising.
>>>
>>> Some of its design goals are:
>>> -- Online defrag
>>> -- Online resizing
>>> -- Snapshots
>>> ... and much more.  Wiki is at
>>> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>>
>>> It looks like, ultimately, btrfs is the file system that we'll all be using.
>>>
>>> So ... I'm wondering if anyone else out there is trying it out.  In
>>> 10.04, you can download btrfs-tools and create btrfs file systems.
>>>
>>> I still haven't figured out how to resize a subvolume and some of the
>>> other stuff.
>>>
>>> Keep in mind that it's still labeled as "experimental", so don't trust
>>> your important data with it just yet.  I have my btrfs file system
>>> created on a 32G thumbdrive.
>>>        
>> http://www.netsplit.com/2010/05/14/btrfs-by-default-in-maverick/
>> <quote>
>> It’s a tough gauntlet, and it would only made with the knowledge that
>> production servers and desktops can be run on Lucid as a fully supported
>> version of Ubuntu at the same time.  I’d give it a 1-in-5 chance.
>> </quote>
>>
>> More:
>> <http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/20-chances-to-get-btrfs-in-ubuntu-1010.html>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
>>      
> Be advised.  You'll want to use the latest upstream kernel, to my
> knowledge Ubuntu is not backporting any of the latest fixes into the
> 2.6.32 kernel in 10.04.
>
>    
I've gotten it to work with 10.04 by loading the btrfs-tools package.

The challenge so far is that it looks like this package hasn't been 
updated since last June.  :(   This version doesn't support deleting 
subvolumes.