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Respectfully to the maintainers: How can this be a stable filesystem if parity is unstable and risks data loss? How has this been allowed to happen? It just
by AaronFriel 1y ago
Respectfully to the maintainers:
How can this be a stable filesystem if parity is unstable and risks data loss?
How has this been allowed to happen?
It just seems so profoundly unserious to me.
- wtallis 1y agoDoes the whole filesystem need to be marked as unstable if it has a single experimental feature? Is any other filesystem held to that standard?
- AaronFriel 1y agoParity support in multi-disk arrays is older than I am, it's a fairly standard feature. btrfs doesn't support this without data loss risks after 17 years of development.
- wtallis 1y agoIf you're not interested in a multi-disk storage system that doesn't have (stable, non-experimental) parity modes, that's a valid personal preference but not at all a justification for the position that the rest of the features cannot be stable and that the project as a whole cannot be taken seriously by anyone.
- AaronFriel 1y agoIs that what I said?
- nextaccountic 1y agoMaybe this specific feature should be marked as unstable and default to disabled on most kernel builds unless you add something like btrfs.experimental=1 to the kernel line or something