Anyone else trying out the new btrfs file system?

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/24/2010 06:26 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 25, 2010 05:16 AM, Mike Fedyk wrote:
>    
>> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>   wrote:
>>      
>>>        
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Not with the kind of 'long term support' you get on Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> If they would update btrfs bits like Redhat updates XFS bits on their
>>> RHEL5 distro, then maybe I'd bother trying it out. It would be nice to
>>> have something to replace OpenSolaris/ZFS but at the moment I am not
>>> holding my breath.
>>>        
>> AFAIK, the only distros backporting btrfs fixes are rhel6 beta and fedora 13.
>>
>>      
> Interesting. Do you know if it supports NFSv4 acls? There is no mention
> of acls on wikipedia or kernel.org
>
>    
         I will need to know why btrfs is better than ext4 or even ext2.

73 Karl


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