Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 2, 2014 1:33 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by dlang
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

There is no clear switch over point from unstable to stable for filesystems. Some features in Btrfs are more stable than others. It should be fine to use a subset of them directly (Ex:OpenSUSE is switching over to Btrfs while disabling some of the more advanced features). So that by itself doesn't concern me as much as the potential to move into something else in the future.

Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 2, 2014 2:33 UTC (Tue) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link]

It's in RHEL (tech preview), and SLES and (I think) OEL as a production filesystem. Red Hat expect it to become a production item in the lifecycle of 7.

That's hardly the land of wild and crazy any more.

(Anecdata-wise, I found it rubbish under 3.4 - 3.10, and am running data I care about on 3.12 in the RAID1 config. It's been very reliable and coped with a drive failure/rebuild, growing arrays, and so on and so forth.)