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A disaster for enterprise perhaps. I use only a subset of features (such as subvolumes and snapshots and a little RAID 1) and have never had problems. With the

A disaster for enterprise perhaps. I use only a subset of features (such as subvolumes and snapshots and a little RAID 1) and have never had problems. With the way some people talk about it, it sure sounds like it never worked at all.

paulie_a 9y ago
I would never trust btrfs for anything. You might as well just use /dev/null for storage
gst 9y ago
Same here. I've been using btrfs for years so far on my personal laptop and never had any problems.
simcop2387 9y ago
I believe the most recent issues I've seen documented with it are around the built in RAID5/6 implementation not being fully stable. I haven't used any of it myself so I can't comment on the rest of it. (I did use it on an external drive like 5-6 years ago and had issues that I know have been fixed, but haven't retried it).
- static_noise 9y ago
  They should have kept RAID behind yellow tape for years to come. There's just too many problems that can bite you once a physical disk fails and you really need that RAID to recover.
  - tobias3 9y ago
    Yeah, but the distributions are a bit at fault as well. If you use btrfs on SuSE you cannot use RAID5/6 because it is not supported.
beedogs 9y ago
You've never had problems? You're lucky. I guarantee you will. It took me less than a month to lose significant data with it, under normal usage patterns.
- Skunkleton 9y ago
  I have not had good luck with BTRFS on systems running on battery. Its been solid on my workstation for a while though. Still, it is disappointing that it hasn't stabilized faster.
  - Arbalest 9y ago
    I run BTRFS on my laptop. Is yours an ultraportable? Mine is a fairly chunky system with a 100Wh battery, about 3 years old.
    - Skunkleton 9y ago
      In my experience BTRFS has issues when the disk is allowed to go into low power mode.
- ryao 9y ago
  It took me less than 3 days for btrfs to fail me, but that was in the 2.6.33_rc4 days. Had it gone better, I might have become a btrfs developer rather than a ZFS developer. In hindsight, I am happy with how things turned out.
- Arbalest 9y ago
  I've been using it for a good 5 years. OK, I had one time. When I removed a disk from a mirror, forced the remaining disk to operate writable as a single, then attempted to migrate it to single disk duplication, then shut it down before it finished migrating. That's not a sane way to handle data really, I was playing around with unimportant stuff. If it was real data, I would have mounted it read only, and copied it away.
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paulie_a 9y ago

I would never trust btrfs for anything. You might as well just use /dev/null for storage

gst 9y ago

Same here. I've been using btrfs for years so far on my personal laptop and never had any problems.

simcop2387 9y ago

I believe the most recent issues I've seen documented with it are around the built in RAID5/6 implementation not being fully stable. I haven't used any of it myself so I can't comment on the rest of it. (I did use it on an external drive like 5-6 years ago and had issues that I know have been fixed, but haven't retried it).

static_noise 9y ago
They should have kept RAID behind yellow tape for years to come. There's just too many problems that can bite you once a physical disk fails and you really need that RAID to recover.
- tobias3 9y ago
  Yeah, but the distributions are a bit at fault as well. If you use btrfs on SuSE you cannot use RAID5/6 because it is not supported.

beedogs 9y ago

You've never had problems? You're lucky. I guarantee you will. It took me less than a month to lose significant data with it, under normal usage patterns.

Skunkleton 9y ago
I have not had good luck with BTRFS on systems running on battery. Its been solid on my workstation for a while though. Still, it is disappointing that it hasn't stabilized faster.
- Arbalest 9y ago
  I run BTRFS on my laptop. Is yours an ultraportable? Mine is a fairly chunky system with a 100Wh battery, about 3 years old.
  - Skunkleton 9y ago
    In my experience BTRFS has issues when the disk is allowed to go into low power mode.
ryao 9y ago
It took me less than 3 days for btrfs to fail me, but that was in the 2.6.33_rc4 days. Had it gone better, I might have become a btrfs developer rather than a ZFS developer. In hindsight, I am happy with how things turned out.
Arbalest 9y ago
I've been using it for a good 5 years. OK, I had one time. When I removed a disk from a mirror, forced the remaining disk to operate writable as a single, then attempted to migrate it to single disk duplication, then shut it down before it finished migrating. That's not a sane way to handle data really, I was playing around with unimportant stuff. If it was real data, I would have mounted it read only, and copied it away.
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