On Tuesday 17 April 2012 11:04:35 Toby Corkindale wrote:
I suspect this is because btrfs is still basically pre-alpha software -- it's in active development, there's been no attempt to feature-freeze and debug it, and there won't be for some time.
Agree on the pre-alpha and feature freeze it, but I do disagree on the debugging part, there is a lot of work going on to try and shake out bugs including a set of infrastructure recently included that you can compile in to try and catch cases where the filesystem would get left in an inconsistent state on disk should the power fail. There is, of course, a performance penalty for that. :-) But yes, there are still a lot of bugs and as we've seen with 3.3 there can be regressions between kernel releases.. -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP