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Do you use ZFS on the desktop too, or something different? I've used btrfs raid on a server before, and it worked apart one incident which took it two weeks (fo
by fyfy18 8y ago
Do you use ZFS on the desktop too, or something different? I've used btrfs raid on a server before, and it worked apart one incident which took it two weeks (for 4TB of data) to recover from, so I'm probably going to move to ZFS on the next upgrade. On the desktop there seem to be many more tools for btrfs though, like timeshift [0] - effectively Time Machine for Linux.
[0] https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift
- manjana 8y agoJust stay away from raid 5/6 with Btrfs "The parity RAID code has multiple serious data-loss bugs in it. It should not be used for anything other than testing purposes" [1] [1] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56 https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56
- olavgg 8y agoI use NFS, which works really great and is faster than what most people believe. With the exception of no local page cache which impact latency for some applications. iSCSI is another great alternative, and with iSCSI you will also benefit from your local page cache. Though only one machine can use one iSCSI volume at the time. NFS can be shared between different machines. In my setup there is no special network tuning either, it is completely basic MTU is 1500, NO VLAN's, both iSCSI and regular network traffic works great without impacting for each other. Performance is excellent with the cheap Mellanox ConnextX-2 ethernet cards you find on Ebay for 20 USD. There are some really excellent, cheap, silent and with 10G SFP+ ports network switches available too for just 100USD