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I'd backup to a more reliable filesystem than btrfs. In my experience you will eventually randomly lose data with btrfs. I have lost all trust in it.
by paulie_a 8y ago
I'd backup to a more reliable filesystem than btrfs. In my experience you will eventually randomly lose data with btrfs. I have lost all trust in it.
- dokument 8y ago"raid" 1/0 and 10 are stable, others are not. Theoretically btrfs can protect against bit-rot where other fs's typically don't.
- paulie_a 8y agoTheoretically that might be the goal. In my experience data melts away like butter on btrfs.
- CyberShadow 8y agoBackups are by definition redundant, however, btrfs is still the only Linux filesystem with its featureset. Let me know when ZFS on Linux supports shrinking or cloning file ranges. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16494370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16494370