[Lustre-discuss] Btrfs as next generation ldiskfs

[Andreas Dilger]

On Aug 22, 2008  19:51 +0530, Kiran Patil wrote:
> What are the plans for moving ldiskfs from ext3 or ext4 to Btrfs ?

There are no such plans.  It seems unlikely that btrfs will be in
a robust state for a year or two still.

There are plans and work underway to allow using Lustre with the
ZFS DMU as the back-end storage.

> How much code modification is required to make Btrfs as ldiskfs ?

No investigation has been done in this direction, so I can't comment.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.