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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. Re:Pronunciation question... by swaq · · Score: 3, Informative

    BetterFS and ButterFS are both correct. http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/167-amanda-mcpherson/22449-a-conversation-with-chris-mason-on-btrfs-the-next-generation-file-system-for-linux

  2. DON'T INSTALL OPENSUSE 13.1 by lkcl · · Score: 1, Informative

    there are too many bugs in btrfs for it to be installed in production:
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?component=btrfs

    especially this one, which has yet to be resolved:
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60860

    which is a major useability issue. yes i made the mistake of installing btrfs on a live production system.

    1. Re:DON'T INSTALL OPENSUSE 13.1 by Bill+Dimm · · Score: 4, Informative

      According to the summary, OpenSUSE 13.1 is not the one that will default to btrfs, so I don't know why you are saying not to install 13.1.

      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.

  3. No surprise by willoughby · · Score: 4, Informative

    I remember when SuSE was one of the only distros, perhaps the only one, which used reiserfs as the default filesystem. No, there's no punchline. This was when you could buy it in a box (including the little chamelon pin) off the shelf at CompUSA. SuSE has always had a fascination with new filesystems.

  4. Re:exciting. by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Informative

    Like a bag full of with crashed machines

    You probably ran out of memory. No, seriously, don't try it on a machine with less than 3GB of RAM. It's not optimized for that use case yet (version 0.6.2 is current - 1.0 will be 'ready').

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    My God, it's Full of Source!
    OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
  5. Re:We're what 5 generations beyond NTFS now?! by inhuman_4 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Phoronix Benchmarks will give you an idea of the perfomance differences. Btrfs is usually middle of the pack, so nothing to write home about. The big deal with btrfs is the new features like COW, snapshots, filesystem compression, etc. If you are looking for more performance btrfs is not going to impress. If you are looking for better RAID perfomance, snapshots, compression, etc. Then btrfs is going to be huge for linux. It is probably the closest linux will get to having a ZFS clone.