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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: btrfs status and/was: preserve_old_lib
From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date: 2012-02-25 6:11:31
Message-ID: pan.2012.02.25.06.11.31 () cox ! net
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Richard Yao posted on Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:06:21 -0500 as excerpted:
> Have you tried ZFS? The kernel modules are in the portage tree and I am
> maintaining a FAQ regarding the status of Gentoo ZFS support at github:
>
> https://github.com/gentoofan/zfs-overlay/wiki/FAQ
>
> Data stored on ZFS is generally safe unless you go out of your way to
> lose it (e.g. put the ZIL/SLOG on a tmpfs).
I haven't.
One reason is licensing issues. I know they resolve to some degree for
end users who don't distribute and for those only distributing sources,
since the gpl isn't particularly concerned in that case, but it's still
an issue that I'd prefer not to touch, personally (nothing against others
doing so, just not me), so no zfs here. There's a discussion that could
be had beyond that and I'm tempted, but here isn't the place for it.
My reason for posting wasn't really that, anyway, it was the apparently
common misconception out there that btrfs is basically ready and that
they're just being conservative in switching off the experimental label.
There's several posts a week on the btrfs list from people caught out
trying to depend on it, asking about recovery tool status and the like,
that they'd already /know/ the status of if they were using btrfs for
testing, etc, it's only appropriate use atm, and it's simply not ready
for that.
Additionally in the context of gentoo-dev, the post was to say, don't
plan on btrfs stability for anything but pre-release versions of anything
you might be maintaining this year (kernel, btrfs-progs and grub2
packages excepted, but they don't depend on btrfs stability, they help
create it).
--
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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