Anyone else trying out the new btrfs file system?

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Tue May 25 00:26:49 UTC 2010


On Tuesday, May 25, 2010 05:16 AM, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>
>>> Uh... yeah.  Thanks.  Like I said in my original post, don't trust it
>>> with your data just yet.
>>>
>>> I was really just wondering if anyone other than me was trying it out.
>>>
>>
>> Not with the kind of 'long term support' you get on Ubuntu.
>>
>> If they would update btrfs bits like Redhat updates XFS bits on their
>> RHEL5 distro, then maybe I'd bother trying it out. It would be nice to
>> have something to replace OpenSolaris/ZFS but at the moment I am not
>> holding my breath.
>
> AFAIK, the only distros backporting btrfs fixes are rhel6 beta and fedora 13.
>

Interesting. Do you know if it supports NFSv4 acls? There is no mention 
of acls on wikipedia or kernel.org




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