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I just did a greenfield deployment of Windows Server 2012 R2 for a big virtualization environment, and ReFS was supposed to be ideal for that kind of applicatio
by trelliscoded 9y ago
I just did a greenfield deployment of Windows Server 2012 R2 for a big virtualization environment, and ReFS was supposed to be ideal for that kind of application. Everyone I talked to about it told me it was a bad idea, mostly because the supposed gains in certain virtualization operations wasn't worth risking being the first sucker to find a corner case in refs.sys. Also, no data recovery tools support it outside of experiments.
Does anyone actually use ReFS in production?
- DiabloD3 9y agoI don't use ReFS in production, only for personal use, but Win 8.1/Server 2012 R2's version of it should never be deployed in production. If you're interested in ReFS, use Win 10/Server 2016 instead. Microsoft has made a lot of updates and changes to the codebase, including ones to prevent data loss. They're now essentially pitching Storage Spaces+ReFS as a Microsofted ZFS.