2008-10-03 17:06:31

by Jan Engelhardt

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Subject: Re: [RFC] Btrfs mainline plans


On Monday 2008-09-29 15:44, Chris Mason wrote:
>[...]
>But, the code is very actively developed, and I believe the best way to
>develop Btrfs from here is to get it into the mainline kernel (with a
>large warning label about the disk format) and attract more extensive
>review of both the disk format and underlying code.

Definitely. While, due to the changing disk format, long-term storage
is not really an option yet, the filesystem can be really useful in
network-booted hybrid clients that have a local disk in an unionfs
compound mount as a COW rw storage device (because RAM *is* limited
after all). Keep up the work.


Jan