Btrfs File-System Changes Published For Linux 3.13

[jwilliams]

It's not quite ready yet, but let's wait another year and see how things stack up then.

People have been saying that for several years now

[smitty3268]

People have been saying that for several years now

Yep, and people/distros are finally starting to use it. Once that happens, I think the remaining problems will probably clear up pretty quickly because people will start caring about them a lot more than they do right now.

Anyway, i don't get the big deal. Use whatever FS you want. Who cares? Btrfs will either get better and people will start using it. Or it won't. End of story.

[jwilliams]

Yep, and people/distros are finally starting to use it. Once that happens...

No major distros are installing btrfs as the default filesystem. A few keep saying they will soon, but soon never seems to happen. btrfs just is not ready. It seems directionless. It lacks good project management.

[ulenrich]

large random access file - like vm swapfile etc

I never understood how this works with cow and snapshot functionality?

Are there exceptions declared by filename?
Is there a COW_MAX_FILESIZE defined in /etc or in the btrfs source?