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Is it in maintenance mode? Chris Mason (the main btrfs developer) works for Facebook now and Facebook uses btrfs on "millions of servers" (source: https://code.
by gst 8y ago
Is it in maintenance mode? Chris Mason (the main btrfs developer) works for Facebook now and Facebook uses btrfs on "millions of servers" (source: https://code.fb.com/open-source/linux/ https://code.fb.com/open-source/linux/).
- DiabloD3 8y agoFacebook's usage of it is very specific, but as you mentioned, Chris Mason (who used to also work at Oracle on their BTRFS team before Oracle dumped BTRFS) is there in-house to make sure it is smooth. However, I'm pretty sure if I boiled the commit history down for the kernel, most of Facebook's commits would be Flashcache, and not BTRFS. What I forgot, though, is SuSE supports it as their enterprise FS of choice, which is maybe more important than Facebook.
- cookiecaper 8y agoYes. It's important to recognize that there's a big difference in one's willingness to adopt a technology if its creator is on staff. Chris Mason's full-time job is to make sure the thing he built works well for his employer. If you work some place that doesn't have that kind of luxury, perhaps a little extra conservatism is warranted before you go deploying across "millions of servers".