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I don't get this. First and foremost, RAID, in many, many cases, is hardware level and it's sorted by mdraid if not. So I never understood why btrfs tried to i
by pmlnr 9y ago
I don't get this.
First and foremost, RAID, in many, many cases, is hardware level and it's sorted by mdraid if not. So I never understood why btrfs tried to implement this before having stable other things; it should have been an extra in the end.
LVM... well. LVM works, that is for sure. It's also painful, and the last time I tried the same amount of LVM2 snapshots as I have in ZFS it rendered my machine usesless in speed.
But features like built-in encryption, transparent compression, cow - these are _useful_. XFS has it's own problems, especially if you manage to fill it up 100% - I had to reboot numerous production servers due to this -, and it lacks all 3.
ZFS should be the answer. I'm aware of the license issues, still, ZFS is decades ahead of the other solutions. I'm also aware that the MD+LVM+XFS+Stratis will fit better in the UNIX philosophy - including the overhead of learning all the non-standardised, completely un-intuitive commands they have on their own.
- jorangreef 9y ago"First and foremost, RAID, in many, many cases, is hardware level and it's sorted by mdraid if not. So I never understood why btrfs tried to implement this before having stable other things; it should have been an extra in the end." RAID is broken in those layers. The ZFS developers go into the reasons for this in detail.