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SUSE Pledges Endless Love for btrfs; Says Red Hat's Dumping Irrelevant

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

MrPlow writes:

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: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Tuesday August 29 2017, @08:24AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday August 29 2017, @08:24AM (#560725) Journal
    There's a strange attachment to fsck, but it's a program that really shouldn't need to exist. There are three kinds of errors in a filesystem: those that can be detected automatically, those that can be detected and corrected automatically, and those that can't be detected automatically. The last set can, by definition, not be caught by fsck. The middle set shouldn't need fsck, because the filesystem code should be handling them automatically. The first set definitely shouldn't be relying on an offline tool, because you want to stop using a filesystem as soon as you've detected an unrecoverable error. Tools like fsck exist solely to work around either poor filesystem design or CPU limitations on ancient hardware. They have no place on a modern FS.
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