[SOLVED] F17 & btrfs

will btrfs be made default FS in F17?

or should i make a post on the devel-list and hope Josef Bacik replies to it?


Answer to my question is in the F17 Feature List

[renkinjutsu]

I think one of the main things holding back btrfs from being made default is a good fsck tool.. The repair tool is only being worked on by one guy and there's no definite timeline. I doubt Josef bacik would know much more than that.. All we know is that btrfsck is coming.. someday

Originally Posted by renkinjutsu

I think one of the main things holding back btrfs from being made default is a good fsck tool.. The repair tool is only being worked on by one guy and there's no definite timeline. I doubt Josef bacik would know much more than that.. All we know is that btrfsck is coming.. someday

your probably right. i havent seen much movement in the way of a workable or decent FS check with brefs

[AdamW]

yup, that's exactly the status. we still aim to switch to btrfs as soon as it's plausible, but not before.

going by this Bug it looks like there is a working fsck ? a ist of other bugs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689509

[vein]

The fsck is in the final stages of validation I believe, or so I heard. I'll be excited to a see a move to btrfs, as it's been fantastic in terms of performance/features/stability for me, and in a high-usage system to boot.

i aint tried it, maybe it'll be stable enuff for F17 as default FS

[chrismurphy]

What is the btrfsck that's included with F16? It's reporting itself as v0.19.

[RahulSundaram]

Hi

The one included now can only detect problems. Not fix them.

Originally Posted by RahulSundaram

Hi

The one included now can only detect problems. Not fix them.

what about in the 3.2 kernel? im assuming that kernel that has btrfs can fix them? or is that still being tested

[renkinjutsu]

Were there ever plans to build fsck capabilities into the kernel?

Originally Posted by renkinjutsu

Were there ever plans to build fsck capabilities into the kernel?

dunno atm, im to drunk to remember if there was

[jvillain]

LinuxCon Europe

The Kernel Summit was followed by LinuxCon Europe, the first ever European offshoot of the Linux Foundation conference which has long been a established on the North American Linux circuit. With around 900 delegates, numbers were better than expected. Presentations were given by a number of kernel developers, including lead btrfs developer Chris Mason.

He discussed a number of enhancements aimed at improving the performance and stability of the experimental file system which are expected to find their way into Linux 3.2. In the long term, file system level support for RAID 5 and 6 arrays is planned. Before that happens, however, he is, keen to work on a program for checking and repairing btrfs file systems. He gave a brief demonstration of a prototype of this tool, known as btrfsck, which is able to resolve one of the most critical errors and should make its way into a development version soon. Mason has also merged a program known as restore, which can be used to rescue data from damaged btrfs file systems, into the git development tree for the recently updated btrfs tool. How long it will be before the major distributions start to include these new and updated tools is a question of wait and see.

http://www.h-online.com/open/feature...k-1371641.html

[renkinjutsu]

Originally Posted by vein

The fsck is in the final stages of validation I believe, or so I heard. I'll be excited to a see a move to btrfs, as it's been fantastic in terms of performance/features/stability for me, and in a high-usage system to boot.

Do you make regular snapshots of your filesystem? Btrfs is extremely slow for my setup.. but I make use of lots of snapshots

[vein]

I'm making infrequent snapshots of my filesystems, as my current setup has a cron job backing up key files on a separate server.