Btrfs (Re: Slides from May talk now available)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:36:01PM -0400, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> Ah, Btrfs. Is it the one supposedly Oracle-sponsored answered to ZFS? How 
> close it is to production these days? Wondering whether Oracle buying Sun 
> will affect it.

Well the code was merged in 2.6.29, although they say the on disk layout
could still be tweaked a bit so not ready for production use yet.
Fine for playing with and testing as long as you don't mind having to re
mkfs if the disk layout does change in an incompatible way in the future.

And yes oracle is sponsoring some of the development, but it sure
looks good.  Looks much better than ZFS in fact.

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Len Sorensen
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