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Ext4 snapshot concerns

Ext4 snapshot concerns

Posted Jun 9, 2011 6:56 UTC (Thu) by MisterIO (guest, #36192)
Parent article: Ext4 snapshot concerns

The real problem with btrfs is not its lack of stability(though that is still somewhat true), but the fact that it still doesn't have a working fsck! It was supposed to be almost ready by february, but, since then, no updates on its status have appeared. It would be useful to have more news about the status of that project or (maybe even better) to have an actually open development of it(currently code seems to be committed only when it's already considered ready for use).


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Ext4 snapshot concerns

Posted Jun 9, 2011 7:09 UTC (Thu) by sce (subscriber, #65433) [Link]

Hear, hear. I wanted to try out btrfs on an external drive I bought some time ago, but I just couldn't make myself potentially end up in a situation where I would have a partially corrupt filesystem with no way to fix it.

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