On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:01:04 +1000, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
It's for very good reason btrfs is described as:
Btrfs is highly experimental, and THE DISK FORMAT IS NOT YET FINALIZED. You should say N here unless you are interested in testing Btrfs with non-critical data.
Btrfs is approximately 5 years old now, by my estimate. How long does it usually take for a new file system to reach the point at which most users in most scenarios don't run into serious problems?
Well, Stewart's rule is 10 years, but others have a rule of 5 years. Note that ext3 is probably about 10, ext2 may be 15 or so (call me ignorant), XFS is nearing 20 and ZFS loses a few years of maturity for being not very widely used. Not all filesystems have a fsck either. Things do go horribly wrong, and more often than anyone would like. -- Stewart Smith