Re: btrfs, broken design?

Excerpts from Benoît Thiébault's message of 2011-01-20 16:06:21 -0500:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am very interested in the features provided by btrfs.
> 
> I know it is still under active development and thus do not consider using it yet "in
production", but the Wikipedia page describing btrfs contains a very frightening sentence:
> "Edward Shiskin, one of the Reiser4 developers now working for Redhat, got asked in Q2/2010 to
look more detailled into Btrfs and judged that it has a broken design. This design may lead in some
cases to out of space problems."
> 
> I have read the linked mail exchange in the mailing list but it is very technical and I am not
quite sure I understood everything. Could you please tell me if the problem has been fixed since?

There was a bug fixed as part of that discussion, and I think I also
better described the way the tree balancing works to Edward.

> 
> Is there a planned date for the final release of btrfs?

A final release?  We'll keep improving things for a long time.  The
biggest missing feature today is btrfsck, which I'm working on full time
right now.

-chris
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