Btrfs merged for 2.6.29

Posted Jan 10, 2009 1:32 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Btrfs merged for 2.6.29 by kjp
Parent article: Btrfs merged for 2.6.29

I predict that it will be a long time (probably several years) before Oracle recommends btrfs be used for production databases.

it's still under heavy development (many features not yet implemented)

it's just getting to where it can get a lot of testers (not that many people download and install out-of-tree code)

even after the developers and community see it as stable, oracle will still need to stress test it and as a company gain confidence in it.

An official recommendation from Oracle won't happen until they are absolutly sure that it isn't going to eat data, it won't matter how much faster it is in the meantime (other then Oracle possibly allocating developer time to work on it)