Questions for Storage Engineers

[Nick Krause]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:58 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:33:22 -0400, Nick Krause said:
>> This is a favor for the btrfs developers, one of my aunt's work's at
>> IBM and is able to ask questions
>> to a few storage engineers about features they would like to see in a
>> file system and it's tools. In
>> addition if you would like to ask them about how to improve btrfs too,
>> I can send another email
>> to her with your questions.
>
> The two most obvious questions are:
>
> 1) Why do you think that IBM storage engineers have any interesting comments
> about btrfs?  Hint:  if IBM is including a storage engineer in the discussion
> of a project, it's probably not a good usage case for btrfs.  Storage engineers
> get involved when the right answer is Lustre, or IBM's GPFS, or SGI's CXFS,
> or large-scale offerings from EMC or NetApp, or similar over-the-top solutions.
>
> (Full disclosure: I work with those sorts of storage systems for a living, and
> everything mentioned in the previous paragraph is on the floor across the hall)
>
> 2) Why aren't the btrfs developers doing the talking themselves?
That's fair Valdis, the interesting thing through is that btrfs is
their chosen file system internally at least and
they seem to be moving their clients off ext4 to btrfs. The client's
who are using btrfs will be more useful if
I can get the information :). I been banned from the list so I can't
get them involved directly and it's better
I try to get the information from her them you guys as I have known
her for longer.
Cheers Nick