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OpenSUSE May Be First Major Distro To Adopt Btrfs By Default

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 19, 2013 @03:30AM 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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Pronunciation question... by Beardydog · 2013-09-19 03:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Should I be calling it "Butterface"? Because I am calling it "Butterface."
Re:No surprise by ebno-10db · 2013-09-19 04:15 · 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.
Re:We're what 5 generations beyond NTFS now?! by petteyg359 · 2013-09-19 08:00 · 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.