Hi, On 3/11/2012 8:48 PM, Jason White wrote:
Whether one would run Btrfs on a laptop at this stage in its development is a matter of judgment. I can predict there'll be arguments on both sides from people who have different needs and priorities. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable with it yet for general use, but for a development/test system with no important data to preserve that could easily be re-installed, I might use it.
Insofar as Oracle is concerned with their own version of RHEL.... BTRFS is production ready, but they haven't certified their other main products to use it! So as far as I'm concerned, either it isn't "really" production ready or they should get onto certifying their other products to give the "production ready" status some real world worth. I've subscribed to linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org mailing list, just to have an idea as to what is going on .... patches keep on coming and other issues crop up too often as well. I'm not ready to use BTRFS on anything yet myself. In time I do hope it turns out to be a better option than ZFS. I wish that there weren't any licensing issues with ZFS code living in the Linux kernel because I love ZFS on Solaris and I don't want to use ZFS via FUSE -- nor do I want to use BSD kernel (which is another possibility with Debian). Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9012 2102 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National No: 1300 85 3804 Affinity Vision Australia Pty Ltd http://affinityvision.com.au http://securemywireless.com.au http://adsl2choice.net.au In Case of Emergency -- http://affinityvision.com.au/ice.html