[Novalug] [Off-list] Re: btrfs vs the world ...

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Varol Okan
<varokan at movingsatellites.com> wrote:
> understood. you make a couple of good points ( sharp teethed points if I
> may add :)
>
> Anyhow I am aware of the development state of btrfs and I may just be a
> bit anxious  about having the feature set it  provides. I would love to
> see the performance on a local FS come close to ext3/4. I guess I want
> all the goodies of ext3/4 + btrfs's. Sorry, I am just a demanding user
> :) Oh and it would be waaaaay cool if my data would be 'save' too ;)
>
> I remember way back waiting for write access the ntfs to the point where
> it became available but so late it did not matter to me anymore. I just
> wish ( as a Christmas present ) that btrfs will be ready for prime time
> before it reaches the same stale state.

Who says it isn't? Phoronix provided basically no information on their
tests, for all we know they may not be statistically significant.
They tested on a SSD, are you using an SSD? If not the results may be
totally inapplicable. Also— did they fully reinitilize the SSD between
runs?  Or are some of the file systems suffering from the expected SSD
loss of performance?