elementary OS

use btrfs as the default file system

Bug #1387102 reported by swizzle
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elementary OS
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Bug Description

Using btrfs brings very interesting features for a modern OS like snapshots (similar to Time Machine).
Here is a little demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/v/9H7e6BcI5Fo?start=209

swizzle (el-ferreira-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in elementaryos:
assignee: nobody → elementary Developer Community (elementary-dev-community)
status: New → Opinion
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Jacob Parker (jacobparker1992) wrote :

Swizzle, please don't assign bugs that haven't even been discussed.
Also, btrfs isn't yet stable enough to use as default.

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swizzle (el-ferreira-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Sorry my bad, now it's been considered as stable. openSUSE uses it by default in SLE.

Changed in elementaryos:
status: Opinion → Incomplete
Phillip Sz (phillip-sz)
Changed in elementaryos:
assignee: elementary Developer Community (elementary-dev-community) → nobody
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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

This is definitely not an item for Freya, but we might have to use btrfs and perhaps even make it the only supported filesystem for a while if we go for https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Dv_ZGKFn9qhhkBVKNegPmNxhe3BAnsDWa6P4-XkAXg/edit

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status: Incomplete → Opinion
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INIZAN yannick (inizan-yannick) wrote :

btr file system is stable finally ? a good point if i can install elementary os or other distribution on dd without break it (my last 500 GB drive is dead during last try)

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