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ZFS is OK I suppose, but it isn't native. So you have to jump through hoops to use it, just like Nvidia binary graphics drivers. BTRFS works well. I've used it
by zlynx 7y ago
ZFS is OK I suppose, but it isn't native. So you have to jump through hoops to use it, just like Nvidia binary graphics drivers.
BTRFS works well. I've used it for a NAS since 2012. It started with two mirrored 2 TB WD RED drives. Since then it's gone through an expansion to 6 drives in RAID 10 and two drive failures and replacements. Pretty decent performance and never a serious problem.
I've also used it on two laptops with SSD. It had some weird edge cases there using Docker with a lot of snapshots and running out of space for metadata. Unlike some people, I found it pretty straight-forward to recover by adding more space using either a USB drive or reusing my swap partition.
BTRFS snapshots are easy to do and great for backups and Docker image layers.
I felt the need to write this because your comment got three or four anti-BTRFS responses, and BTRFS has always been good to me.
- lsh 7y agoI agree, BTRFS has always been good to me as well and I use it day to day, however out of all the vague negativity in the comments below, this has real merit: > ... raid5,6 had serious issues a while back - the write hole problem still exists for btrfs. it does indeed. BTRFS should not be used on a RAID: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56 https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56
- krageon 7y agoIt shouldn't be used for RAID5 or 6. RAID0, 1 and 10 are fine.