severity 646699 important reassign 646699 partman-btrfs retitle 646699 Please make partman-btrfs optional as BTRFS is too unstable thanks Quoting Gergely Nagy (algernon@balabit.hu): > reassign 646699 debian-installer > thanks > > Maarten <mvrossen@gmail.com> writes: > > > Package: btrfs > > Severity: critical > > Justification: causes serious data loss > > > > BTRFS shouldn't be offert as a option filesystem in the debian installer. > > It is unsafe to use. Quallity is poor. No recovery possible on filesystem errors. (The btrfs driver will even crash on a filesystem error) > > The provided tool btrfsck doesn't actually do anything. > > There doesn't seem to be any progres on a working btrfsck. > > > > Atleased users should be warned to not use it, unless they don't care about dataloss > > There is no btrfs package in Debian, thus, this report did not reach any > developers. Furthermore, since it is the installer that is allegedly at > fault, it should be filed against the debian-installer package. > > I went ahead and reassigned it there. Well, if btrfs is in such a bad shape, then partman-btrfs should be made optional so that only those people who really want it will have it as an option. I don't think that dropping the package entirely is the best option. But making it less "visible" in D-I is probably good if I believe in the above claims (I have no idea about this to be true or not).
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