BTRFS 0.17 in rawhide (at some point)

[Josef Bacik]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:53:06PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Josef Bacik wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've just updated btrfs-progs to 0.17 in rawhide, and will be doing
>>> the same for F-10 and F-9 shortly.  If you are using the rawhide
>>> kernel then you will be able to test with the newly merged btrfs
>>> filesystem.  All testing is greatly appreciated.  Here is a wiki page
>>> which outlines some of the basic commands you can use with btrfs
>>>
>>> http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Getting_started
>>>
>>> Btrfs has built in snapshotting, subvolumes and RAID support, so lots
>>> of fun new things to tinker with.
>>
>> I know this is very early but just to get an idea of the status, has
>> anyone looked into:
>>
>>  * Anaconda support for Fedora 11
>
> There was an Anaconda session at FUDCon.  This wasn't mentioned at all.
> I think there are enough things to do for F11 at the moment, and given
> that btrfs isn't even in a stable release yet it's probably premature
> to talk about supporting it for installs.
>

Eric has sent along an anaconda patch.  The thinking is that there
will be some magic incantation to turn it on for F11, kind of like
linux iamanext4developer when ext4 wasn't quite ready.  Thanks,

Josef