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Btrfs Could Be the Default File System In Ubuntu Meerkat

Posted by Soulskill on from the shake-things-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The EXT family of file systems (ext2, ext3, ext4) have ruled many Linux distributions for a long time, and Ubuntu has been no exception. But things may no longer be the same for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. Canonical's Scott James Remnant said in a blog post that plans are on for doing work to have btrfs as an installation option, and that the possibility of making it the default file system in Ubuntu 10.10 has not been ruled out."

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  1. Ubuntu... by ProdigyPuNk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Making Debian look better with every release!

    1. Re:Ubuntu... by DeadDecoy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, stupid ubuntu for trying to incorporate usability features into Linux. How's a linux user supposed to retain their air of smug supperiority if the average schmoe can install it. At least I have my HC11 microcontroller and assembly code to fall back on!

    2. Re:Ubuntu... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can keep your ugly old broad. Me, I want something young and fresh, even if she's a little loopy.

      Loopy chicks fsck better.

    3. Re:Ubuntu... by CAIMLAS · · Score: 4, Funny

      How's a linux user supposed to retain their air of smug supperiority if the average schmoe can install it.

      Become a FreeBSD user, of course. Or was that a rhetorical question? Have you ever met a FreeBSD user?

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    4. Re:Ubuntu... by fishexe · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can keep your ugly old broad. Me, I want something young and fresh, even if she's a little loopy.

      Loopy chicks fsck better.

      And you can mount them more times in a row. Loopback mounting, even.

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  2. Re:please... by jornak · · Score: 2, Funny

    In humble your opinion, sir?
    I not understand do.

  3. Re:features & performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can't compare it to Reiser4. Reiser just kills everything out there.

  4. Re:please... by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do not question master Yoda!

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  5. Re:features & performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reiser is a killer FS, but you have to keep your eyes on it...it totally chokes under certain conditions, with the result being your system gets locked up.

  6. Re:It hasn't been ruled out, but it is ruled unlik by emj · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thank you, exacly what I wanted to say. I mean it hasn't been ruled out that the Meerkat CDs will ship on ICMB from South Africa, which is slightly more likely than the CDs shipping with Btrfs as default.

  7. I can see why they think it's ready! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    [linux-2.6]$ git log fs/btrfs | egrep "Author.*ubuntu" | wc -l
    0

    I mean, with that amount of effort, it's about time they are able to finally bask in the glory of their creation!

    It'll also be comforting to know their btrfs developers will be able to resolve any problems that may crop up.

    Just sayin'

  8. Re:please... by X3J11 · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. The file system has the power to brick your machine because of a clock setting

    I do not think this word means what you think it means.

  9. Re:please... by PRMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah. Not to troll, but if you want to be user-friendly like Windows, you can't dump out to a black screen and tell the user to run some command-line gobbledygook... every 3 months....

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  10. Re:features by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does Btrfs support proportional fonts?

  11. Re:features & performance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But sometimes that's the only way to get it to tell you the location of a lost file.

  12. Re:please... by fishexe · · Score: 4, Funny

    When 900 years old you reach, use ext2 you will not! Hmph!

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  13. Yeah by roman_mir · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I know, I know, it's a killer file system.

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  14. Re:Is it better in the recovery department than ex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've seen ext2/3 delete all of my files, very quickly. Not exactly the intended behavior at the time.

  15. Re:Why does this article scare me? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maverick Meerkat will be all about trying out new things, they'll scrap whatever doesn't work.

    Funny, that sounds like the last 3 Ubuntu releases to me. Except for the "scrap" part, that is.