[arch-general] btrfs & Arch

[Aljosha Papsch]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:43:58 +0200 Seblu <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
> <gour at atmarama.net> wrote:
> > Afaics, btrfs will soon get fsck tool for repairing the fs, but I
> > wonder what's the plan for btrfs support in Arch, iow, when it can
> > become 'official' ?
> 
> BTRFS is already supported by initscripts:
> https://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/commit/?id=ca372312062e7843ca69e2edd54b58ab609a69ee
> 
> and package is in core distro repository:
> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/btrfs-progs-unstable/
> 
> This sounds "official". But as underline Thomas, btrfs is still
> unstable ! However, ubuntu does not seem to be afraid :
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/btrfs
> 


There is enough reason to be afraid. After 4 weeks of unencumbered
using, rm'ing a directory failed with the error "directory not empty". A
fs check showed errors, as expected, but of course I wasn't able to
repair it. Now I'm back to ext4.
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