Anyone else trying out the new btrfs file system?

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:03 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 05/23/2010 10:47 AM, Charlie Brune wrote:
>> I've been looking at the new "btrfs" file system and it looks promising.
>>
>> Some of its design goals are:
>> -- Online defrag
>> -- Online resizing
>> -- Snapshots
>> ... and much more.  Wiki is at
>> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>> It looks like, ultimately, btrfs is the file system that we'll all be using.
>>
>> So ... I'm wondering if anyone else out there is trying it out.  In
>> 10.04, you can download btrfs-tools and create btrfs file systems.
>>
>> I still haven't figured out how to resize a subvolume and some of the
>> other stuff.
>>
>> Keep in mind that it's still labeled as "experimental", so don't trust
>> your important data with it just yet.  I have my btrfs file system
>> created on a 32G thumbdrive.
>
> http://www.netsplit.com/2010/05/14/btrfs-by-default-in-maverick/
> <quote>
> It’s a tough gauntlet, and it would only made with the knowledge that
> production servers and desktops can be run on Lucid as a fully supported
> version of Ubuntu at the same time.  I’d give it a 1-in-5 chance.
> </quote>
>
> More:
> <http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/20-chances-to-get-btrfs-in-ubuntu-1010.html>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

Be advised.  You'll want to use the latest upstream kernel, to my
knowledge Ubuntu is not backporting any of the latest fixes into the
2.6.32 kernel in 10.04.