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OpenSUSE May Be First Major Distro To Adopt Btrfs By Default

Posted by timothy on from the slippery dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The openSUSE Linux distribution looks like it may be the first major Linux distribution to ship the Btrfs file-system by default. The openSUSE 13.1 release is due out in November and is still using EXT4 by default, but after that the developers are looking at having openSUSE using Btrfs by default on new installations. The Btrfs features to be enabled would be the ones the developers feel are data-safe."

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  1. Who uses the defaults? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should enable all the worst options by default, that way people will learn to learn what they're doing. It's not like installing an OS is something you just do casually without any thought.

    1. Re:Who uses the defaults? by MightyYar · · Score: 1, Funny

      What's the name of your distribution? I'll be avoiding that one!

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      W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
  2. Pronunciation question... by Beardydog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should I be calling it "Butterface"? Because I am calling it "Butterface."

    1. Re:Pronunciation question... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      BetterFS and ButterFS are both correct
      I pronouce it BitterFS, regardless of what is correct

      Betty Botter bought some butter. "But," said she, "this butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter." So she bought a bit of butter, better than the bitter butter, pit it in her bit of batter, made her bit of batter better. Uh, FS.

      I'll get my hat....

  3. Re:No surprise by ebno-10db · · Score: 4, Funny

    I remember when SuSE was one of the only distros, perhaps the only one, which used reiserfs as the default filesystem.

    Big mistake - it almost killed SuSE.

  4. Re:We're what 5 generations beyond NTFS now?! by petteyg359 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I question the use case, The hardware was defiantly desktop grade

    Was the hardware told that it absolutely must stop being desktop grade? I see no other reason for it to express defiance.