Anyone else trying out the new btrfs file system?

[Charlie Brune]

On 05/23/2010 05:31 PM, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Charlie Brune<Ubuntu at bruneworld.com>  wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>
>>      
> If you use old versions of the btrfs kernel module you are asking for
> trouble.  Make sure you're using the latest kernel when you use btrfs.
>   You do have good working backups right?  If not then stay away from
> btrfs or any experimental filesystem.  You have been warned.
>
>    
Uh... yeah.  Thanks.  Like I said in my original post, don't trust it 
with your data just yet.

I was really just wondering if anyone other than me was trying it out.