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posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 28 2017, @10:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the a-bitter-fs dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

SUSE has decided to let the world know it has no plans to step away from the btrfs filesystem, and plans to make it even better.

The company's public display of affection comes after Red Hat decided not to fully support the filesystem in its own Linux.

Losing a place in one of the big three Linux distros isn't a good look for any package even if, as was the case with this decision, Red Hat was never a big contributor or fan of btrfs.

[Matthias G. Eckermann] also hinted at some future directions for the filesystem. "We just start to see the opportunities from subvolume quotas when managing Quality of Service on the storage level" he writes, adding "Compression (already there) combined with Encryption (future) makes btrfs an interesting choice for embedded systems and IoT, as may the full use of send-receive for managing system patches and updates to (Linux based) 'firmware'." ®

Mmmmmm... butter-fs

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/25/suse_btrfs_defence/


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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday August 28 2017, @09:49PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday August 28 2017, @09:49PM (#560541) Journal

    That's the magic. Almost no data loss. I've lost more data to dumb mistakes (# dd if=... of=/dev/sdc↵ ... fuuuuuuuuuk that was the wrong disk!) than hardware failure or bit rot. In fact, I think I see less bit rot nowadays than maybe 15+ years ago. I remember dealing with more corrupt compressed archives and video files on older 250GB ATA disks than I do now. Those kinds of files see a lot of sitting and rot away. Does that mean I am more confident? No. Still a bit paranoid and I keep backups.

    As for BTRFS. I have yet to give it a go. I like the idea of a libre file system with all the goodies like built in RAID and data verification. But without it being blessed as stable and production ready by the devs, I'm just not interested.

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