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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Re: Handbook btrfs support
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 11:55:39
Message-Id: 20131207115532.GA10656@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-doc] Re: Handbook btrfs support by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 11:48:52AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
2 > wireless posted on Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:12:35 -0500 as excerpted:
3 >
4 > > I understand your concerns. The goals is to do this now, to flesh out,
5 > > the issues, so when btrfs becomes "stable" there is a simple guide for
6 > > adventurous, but ordinary users to follow. Also, a dual hope that
7 > > supporting btrfs, formally in the handbook, become a reality.
8 >
9 > That's a worthwhile goal, I'll agree. =:^)
10 >
11 > And I really do expect btrfs to be calming down (it is already, it's just
12 > not /calm/ yet) next year, such that by this time next year, I believe/
13 > hope my opinion will be different, that it /is/ ready. And having the
14 > proposed changes hammered out and real deployment tested when that
15 > happens is indeed a good thing. Thanks! =:^)
16
17 If I'm not mistaken, RedHat is hoping to include Btrfs as a stable file
18 system for RHEL7. Although I'm not going to use Btrfs for our databases soon
19 ;-)
20
21 Anyway, there is already some documentation on Btrfs on
22 http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Btrfs so it might make sense to improve that
23 documentation.
24
25 Wkr,
26 Sven Vermeulen