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New home for the [in]famous filesystem BTRFS

13 points by jeditobe 8y ago

a012 8y ago
Honest question: why choose btrfs over other filesystem?
- jeditobe 8y ago
  Because it is better than FAT and has feature complete driver for Windows
- SUSEuser 8y ago
  It has a ZFS feature set, but was designed with non-server workloads in mind.
- scawf 8y ago
  What is the best modern filesystem in your opinion ? (supported on linux)
- akubera 8y ago
  I'm not sure if you mean "user" or "reactOS devs". If the latter, I can't be sure (besides the fact it's modern and has plenty of features), but as a user, I chose btrfs for its "subvolumes". With subvolumes, you can selectively mount subdirectories in the partition without an explicit "bind" mount. For example, I have 3 linux installs on subvolumes /rootfsUbuntu1804 /rootfsArch /rootfsFedora27. They all share the whole partition so I wont regret giving one too much space that it will never use, or worry about resizing partitions to create a new one. The fstab of any looks something like: UUID=... / btrfs subvol=rootfsUbuntu1804,compress 0 0 (the "compress" option there is also neat.) If using as /, you must add rootflags=subvol=rootfsUbuntu1804 to your boot options. I also have my home directory and other "shared filesystem" things (like docker) as subvolumes, each being shared to reduce redundancy. The only downside is graphical file managers see each mount as a "device" so I have a lot of noise in the sidebar of Dolphin or Nautilus.
krig 8y ago
Just a FYI: SUSE is still developing and using btrfs, both in openSUSE and in the enterprise edition.
hucker 8y ago
This is a pretty misleading title. The article is a GSoC-report about adding BTRFS-support to ReactOS.
- jeditobe 8y ago
  BTRFS will be default FS in ReactOS
br0ke103 8y ago
awesome!
ch_123 8y ago
I'm curious as to why they don't use something like NTFS-3G. I know it's a FUSE FS, but it's still pretty fast.
SUSEuser 8y ago
> New home for the [in]famous filesystem BTRFS Submitter changed the title to mock BTRFS. Which is funny, since APFS is probably at least as bad, and likely much worse[1], yet given how many Apple fanboys there are here, I doubt similar mocking of it would be tolerated. [1] https://bombich.com/blog/2018/02/15/macos-may-lose-data-on-apfs-formatted-disk-images https://bombich.com/blog/2018/02/15/macos-may-lose-data-on-a...
- jeditobe 8y ago
  RedHat discontinued BTRFS for a number of reasons.

13 points by jeditobe 8y ago

a012 8y ago

Honest question: why choose btrfs over other filesystem?

jeditobe 8y ago
Because it is better than FAT and has feature complete driver for Windows
SUSEuser 8y ago
It has a ZFS feature set, but was designed with non-server workloads in mind.
scawf 8y ago
What is the best modern filesystem in your opinion ? (supported on linux)
akubera 8y ago
I'm not sure if you mean "user" or "reactOS devs". If the latter, I can't be sure (besides the fact it's modern and has plenty of features), but as a user, I chose btrfs for its "subvolumes". With subvolumes, you can selectively mount subdirectories in the partition without an explicit "bind" mount. For example, I have 3 linux installs on subvolumes /rootfsUbuntu1804 /rootfsArch /rootfsFedora27. They all share the whole partition so I wont regret giving one too much space that it will never use, or worry about resizing partitions to create a new one. The fstab of any looks something like: UUID=... / btrfs subvol=rootfsUbuntu1804,compress 0 0 (the "compress" option there is also neat.) If using as /, you must add rootflags=subvol=rootfsUbuntu1804 to your boot options. I also have my home directory and other "shared filesystem" things (like docker) as subvolumes, each being shared to reduce redundancy. The only downside is graphical file managers see each mount as a "device" so I have a lot of noise in the sidebar of Dolphin or Nautilus.

krig 8y ago

Just a FYI: SUSE is still developing and using btrfs, both in openSUSE and in the enterprise edition.

hucker 8y ago

This is a pretty misleading title. The article is a GSoC-report about adding BTRFS-support to ReactOS.

jeditobe 8y ago
BTRFS will be default FS in ReactOS

br0ke103 8y ago

awesome!

ch_123 8y ago

I'm curious as to why they don't use something like NTFS-3G. I know it's a FUSE FS, but it's still pretty fast.

SUSEuser 8y ago

> New home for the [in]famous filesystem BTRFS Submitter changed the title to mock BTRFS. Which is funny, since APFS is probably at least as bad, and likely much worse[1], yet given how many Apple fanboys there are here, I doubt similar mocking of it would be tolerated. [1] https://bombich.com/blog/2018/02/15/macos-may-lose-data-on-apfs-formatted-disk-images https://bombich.com/blog/2018/02/15/macos-may-lose-data-on-a...

jeditobe 8y ago
RedHat discontinued BTRFS for a number of reasons.