You guys do an amazing job - I am blown away!

Two years ago I installed btrfs across 8 hard drives on my desktop system with the entire system ending up on btrfs RAID 1. I did all of this with btrfs-progs-0.20. Since that time I have been dreading updating my system because of fear that the old btrfs volumes would become unstable in the process. I was finally driven to update by otherwise unresolvable security issues. I went from 32bit OS to 64bit OS with new btrfs-progs 3.19.1. I simply cannot believe that everything just worked without a hitch. In terms of btrfs the upgrade from what was then "experimental" to what is now "stable" was totally transparent. In the past two years I have had zero problems with btrfs involving multiple TB of data. I really appreciate all that you guys have done to make btrfs such an amazing file system.

George,

Always good to see the occasional very positive feedback.

(Even from a non-developer such as myself! :-) )

I've been using various versions of btrfs on both test and production systems for some time now. Always looks to be spectacular for the care for backwards compatibility/safety included.

Never done a 32-bit -> 64-bit jump myself but there have been quite a few leaps made on various hardware/software setups and all without a hitch keeping the btrfs in place in-situ. Very much preferred compared to the chore of instead having to read-and-rewrite multiple TBytes of data!

And all still 'experimental'... ;-)

Carry on the good developments!

Regards,
Martin