On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4 August 2017 at 16:46, Solomon Peachy <pizza(a)shaftnet.org>
wrote:
> ...it fails the most basic requirement of a filesystem -- to not
> eat data.
Me also; I've tried btfs three times now -- in one case telling me I
had no free space after a few weeks when clearly there was tens GBs
free, one time needing to wipe and reformat as writes trudged to a few
thousand bytes per second and and the other time destroying my
file-system when I ran out of battery power. I think "it's getting
better, we promise" only works for so many years. I've never had a
problem with EXT3/4 or with XFS. YMMV.
Yeah... I was very excited about RAID 6 capability and starting using it in
2013. I took all the necessary precautions, backups, etc. and never lost
data. I waited and waited for it to be declared stable and followed the
mailing list threads. Then the announcement came in July 2016 that RAID
5/6 was toxic and a year later, it's still not fixed. That was it for me
and I switched to XFS and counted my blessings I wasn't burnt as some
people have been. Then there was this:
https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs
and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fvDDPaIoY&t=18m28s
I believe it's a good decision on Redhat's part. At some point you have to
fish or cut bait.