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> The guy even admits it as well with his repeated "please don't actually use this in production" style messages - it's hard to give a greater indication than this that the code isn't yet ready for stable.

True that, and yet the kernel has zero issues keeping Btrfs around even though it's been eating people data since 2010. Kent Overstreet sure is naive at times, but I just can't not sneer at the irony that an experimental filesystem is arguably better than a 15-years old one that's been in the Linux kernel for more than a decade.




> True that, and yet the kernel has zero issues keeping Btrfs around even though it's been eating people data since

I can imagine scenarios where known failure modes on an "inferior" tool are better than unknown failure modes on a "superior" one.


honestly, it's mostly just a matter of trying to give myself the time to work with bugs as people hit them, and stage the rollout. I don't want clueless newbies running it until it's completely bulletproof.




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