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New Linux Vision That Involves btrfs

posted by LaminatorX on Monday September 01 2014, @09:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the puttering-about dept.

boteeka writes:

Phoronix has an article up about some interesting ideas of Lennart Poettering about what could be a possible future for Linux:

Lennart Poettering of systemd and PulseAudio fame has published a lengthy blog post that shares his vision for how he wishes to change how Linux software systems are put together to address a wide variety of issues. The Btrfs file-system and systemd play big roles with his new vision. Long story short, Lennart is trying to tackle how Linux distributions and software systems themselves are assembled to improve security, deal with the challenges of upstream software vendors integrating into many different distributions, and "the classic Linux distribution scheme is frequently not what end users want."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Marand on Tuesday September 02 2014, @12:03AM

    by Marand (1081) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @12:03AM (#88266) Journal

    Still, I hate to see BTRFS getting tared with the brush reserved for SystemD.

    I think that's inevitable considering it was an Oracle project in the first place. That's going to damn it in the opinion of a lot of people no matter what its merits may be. Poettering advocating it is small-time compared to the hate people have for Oracle.

    Personally, I have no opinion on btrfs, because I'm extremely conservative with my use of filesystems; I have a tendency to hit obscure bugs in software due to niche use cases, and I'd rather not tempt fate with immature filesystems. I'm still using ext3 and XFS, though I'll be switching to ext4 for the next update I do. By the time btrfs is on my radar, they'll be working on btrfs2 :P

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by frojack on Tuesday September 02 2014, @01:12AM

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday September 02 2014, @01:12AM (#88304) Journal

    Actually it started well before Oracle got involved.
    They paid the salary of some developers, true. If you want to toss out all of Oracle's contributions to Linux just because they are Oracle you would end up doing serious damage. The principal implementers came from Suse, had worked on ZFS, and ReiserFS (for suse), and went to work at Oracle and was given free reigns to develop the system.

    Btrfs is a true open source project - not just in the license, but also in the community.
    http://lwn.net/Articles/342892/ [lwn.net]

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