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Is Btrfs worth considering? ZFS is one of the most advanced, stable and feature-complete filesystems there is, and is cross-platform. Btrfs is best known for be
by swinglock 8y ago
Is Btrfs worth considering? ZFS is one of the most advanced, stable and feature-complete filesystems there is, and is cross-platform. Btrfs is best known for being flakey and in mainline.
Had there not been uncertainties about licensing which prevented ZFS from being in mainline there wouldn't be any Btrfs. How can you ever really trust a filesystem developed by adding features first, trying to add stability and usability later anyway?
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoI don't even really understand why ZFS being outside mainline is such an issue. On Debian Stretch, I installed ZFS like any other package, and didn't even realize the kernel was getting recompiled until I read about the licensing situation later on. I did think it was odd that installing the ZFS package took such a long time, but that was a one-time wait.