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From: Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject: Re: BTRFS usage?
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:26:28 +0000
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On 19/03/14 18:42, Lance Orner wrote:
> Although I'm just using BTRFS for home server useage, I have been
> using it for the past year or so, and just recently used to to
> assemble a RAID1 configuration, which is really easy to do and
> reconfigure.  In casual reading, it seems BTRFS is the future of
> filesystems.
>
> However, I also read about scary "experimental" tags, and how people
> don't want to commit to it yet.  I guess I can understand full scale
> IS deployment risks, but is it ever going to be labled as done and we
> move on?
>

Wouldn't touch it with a bargepole for anything important. I did try it 
once, experimentally - it was not ready for primetime - though that was 
a couple of years back.

However, if you can use it in an experimental context, and can feed back 
to the developers, it's always good.