OpenSUSE May Be First Major Distro To Adopt Btrfs By Default 104
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."
exciting. (Score:5, Interesting)
I've gotten 4 machines running "native zfs for linux" using the stable ppa for ubuntu server 12.04.
It has been a truly mixed bag. Like a bag full of with crashed machines. At least the data has survived each time.
I am genuinely excited at the idea of BTRFs becoming production ready.
Re:It'll be news once they do it (Score:5, Interesting)
On the other hand, OpenSuse, and SuSE before them, have a track record of adopting newer file systems as the default.
They also demote some filesystems as the default, (while still making them available for the user to set as the default.).
(I still use reiserfs on some systems, it may not be massively scale-able, but its pretty bullet proof).
But more to the point, I can't really understand your point about RSNs, since Btrfs is already available in OpenSuse and several other Distros for the last several releases.
Further, on Opensuse at least, the user can set any of the choices as the default for any new partitions, or as the system default at install time. The available choices include Btrfs, XFS and Reiserfs, and three versions of Ext.
Its not that something is promised and not delivered. Its more akin to having the default web browser set to Chrome or Firefox.
There is no broken promises here. Simply a failure to understand that the choice has been there for years.
Re:DON'T INSTALL OPENSUSE 13.1 (Score:4, Interesting)
there are too many bugs in btrfs for it to be installed in production:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?component=btrfs [kernel.org]
Well, hold on a second here...
Your list shows 196 bugs with only 36 still un-fixed.
Yet EXT4 shows 214 bugs with still 34 still un-fixed.
Yet Ext4 seems to by adopted by world plus dog.