Thanks all. Between the comments on this thread and the review if Mint 12 I heard on DistroWatch Weekly this week, where the reviewer tried btrfs, I think I'll be sticking to ext4 for the time being.
--b On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:21:23PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > > Is anyone using btrfs in day-to-day operation? I'm going to be rebuilding > > my workstation, probably this weekend, and I was wondering if it was a > > viable alternative to ext4. It appears to have a lot of useful features, > > but if it isn't stable, I'll stick with ext4. > > I have been using it, and in practice it works well. However, I > would be reluctant to trust it too much at this point. > > - it still lacks a fsck tool. If you do have a problem, there is > no means of repairing the damage, and the chance of losing data > is high > - it's still classed as experimental > - the performance is good for some workloads, but awful for others; > in particular fsync is expensive, and the performance of dpkg is > abysmal in comparison with ext3/4 > > > Regards, > Roger > > -- > .''`. Roger Leigh > : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ > `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ > `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111228173802.gf5...@codelibre.net > >
