Linux 5.16.5 Released To Fix Up Btrfs' Botched Up Defragging

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.16.5 Released To Fix Up Btrfs' Botched Up Defragging

Linux 5.16.5 is out today and making it a notable point release is it fixed up the rather botched state of the Btrfs file-system code for the v5.16 kernel...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.16-Better-Btrfs

[HD7950]

Bugtrfs.

[CochainComplex]

I hope this will not cause "regressions" in the rising reputation of btfs. Its not long ago that btrfs was still deemed as unstable.

[cynic]

actually, the news title is a bit of click bait

the kernel has the usual amount of bug fixes in all the areas, plus, some fixes related to btrfs defrag.

[Space Heater]

I hope this will not cause "regressions" in the rising reputation of btfs. Its not long ago that btrfs was still deemed as unstable.

Why are you more concerned about the reputation of a filesystem rather than the actual quality of it?

[xuwang]

Why are you more concerned about the reputation of a filesystem rather than the actual quality of it?

Fair point, but I have to admit I find myself concerned with the reputation of Linux and not just its quality. I think its quality is great, and I want it to have a good reputation so that others use it since (1) I think that many people don't know that they would actually really like it and (2) a larger user base would feed back into the quality (and of the quality of third-party things supporting it). I guess the same type of argument could be made for a filesystem.

[RahulSundaram]

Fair point, but I have to admit I find myself concerned with the reputation of Linux and not just its quality. I think its quality is great, and I want it to have a good reputation so that others use it since (1) I think that many people don't know that they would actually really like it and (2) a larger user base would feed back into the quality (and of the quality of third-party things supporting it). I guess the same type of argument could be made for a filesystem.

Reputation should reflect the quality. If there are regular regressions, it should affect the reputation, not just of a single fs but for the kernel on the whole. The goal should to push for more quality control - automated tests and so forth rather than hide the problem.

[vladpetric]

Bugtrfs.

It's painful that I have to agree with you ...

ZoL ...

[EspadaV8]

I hope this will not cause "regressions" in the rising reputation of btfs. Its not long ago that btrfs was still deemed as unstable.

Don't think it needs any help there 😉 admittedly I'm no expert on brtfs, but from what I have read/heard, I do wonder how it lost its experimental/unstable flag. The whole architecture sounds flawed.

[Jannik2099]

Not sure why this is getting blown up so much. Performance regression in a new major release that now got fixed. It's also by far not the only thing that got fixed in 5.16.5 or was broken in 5.16.0