> That is precisely why I'm asking on this list. I don't know who those people
> are, and this is really the best place I know of to start contact and those
> discussions.
>
>
My apologies.. my tone was not helpful. You are correct that asking
here is where to start. I think the groups who would be able to help
answer would be
1. Kernel team
2. QA team
3. Anaconda team
4. Workstation/Server/Cloud or just one if it were to be only on one product.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
> Certainly, but with none of the features in Btrfs actually emitting scary
> "experimental" warnings anymore, and even all features working in btrfs RAID
> 5/6 now, I think we should really start pushing it to more people. Or at
> least develop some kind of test plan to prove the "worthiness" of using it
> as default. We must have something, ne?
Bingo! We need
a. Pass/fail performance criteria
b. Pass/fail data loss criteria
c. Pass/fail security criteria
and code to drive them all. My area of expertise is strictly
performance. I'd be happy to contribute tests and analysis, although I
suspect Phoronix may have everything needed.
Let's say a three-way bakeoff - btrfs, ext4 and xfs (since IIRC xfs is
a default in some RHEL configurations). Let me know if you want me to
resurrect any of my 2009 stuff on disk performance.
On 24 June 2015 at 04:28, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@znmeb.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Certainly, but with none of the features in Btrfs actually emitting scary
>> "experimental" warnings anymore, and even all features working in btrfs RAID
>> 5/6 now, I think we should really start pushing it to more people. Or at
>> least develop some kind of test plan to prove the "worthiness" of using it
>> as default. We must have something, ne?
>
> Bingo! We need
>
> a. Pass/fail performance criteria
> b. Pass/fail data loss criteria
> c. Pass/fail security criteria
>
And advice for end users on btrfs management. People trying it out
already are going to be more enthusiastic about understanding
filesystems than the typical user. Also considering whether anything
will be broken by the change, for example, df reporting inaccurate
numbers may have knock on effects.