On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 10:35 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:35:55 Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > I'm thinking of filing a bug report against the Debian-installer
> > > package to warn people about BTRFS. I don't believe that BTRFS in 3.15
> > > is suitable for a typical Debian user and I don't know how good 3.16
> > > will be.
> >
> > Do you think some slightly later version will be significantly better?
>
> Currently in 3.15 they are fixing some performance problems which
> seems to have exposed race conditions and made BTRFS significantly
> less reliable.
>
> There are a number of other ways that BTRFS performance could be
> improved so I don't expect 3.16 to ever be as reliable as 3.14. If it
> wasn't for the plans to use 3.16 in Jessie I'd skip it for all my
> personal machines and wait for 3.17 or later.
Well, do let us know how that goes. I would *hope* that the btrfs
developers will send the necessary bug fixes for inclusion in stable
branches, but I don't think they've been very consistent about doing so
in the past.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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