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Can you do btrfs with FreeNAS? I didn't think that was available.
by eric_the_read 10y ago
Can you do btrfs with FreeNAS? I didn't think that was available.
- yoasif_ 10y agoNo, you have to go with Linux. I'm using the latest Ubuntu server LTS (since ZFS is also included, and because I'm familiar with Ubuntu). I don't have experience with FreeNAS unfortunately.
- jmporcel 10y agoIf you could, that makes no sense. ZFS is superior.
- cyphar 10y agoUnless you want to reshape your array. Then md-raid is superior. Btrfs's raid implementation has had some pretty bad issues recently and has been declared "experimental" as a result.
- yoasif_ 10y agoThis is inaccurate. Raid56 have always been labeled experimental, but recently, data corruption bugs were found which make it dangerous to use. Other raid levels (raid0, raid1, raid10) work fine and are considered stable -- at least as stable as the filesystem itself. Either way, if you care about the data, you must backup, no matter what fs you use.
- cyphar 10y agoApologies, I only saw the recent mailing list post which basically said "we're removing the ability to even compile support for raid56". I didn't mean to say that btrfs was overly-zealous in their trust of new code (I personally am super excited for the future of btrfs).