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Really good article. I also agree with the author: ZFS is light years ahead of Btrfs. I currently use it in my home backup server (used to be a rpi with 2 hdd,

Really good article. I also agree with the author: ZFS is light years ahead of Btrfs. I currently use it in my home backup server (used to be a rpi with 2 hdd, moved to rockpro64 with 4 hdd and a sata controller) and it's just great: super easy to maintain and fix, even swapping disks is not a huge endeavor.

h1d 7y ago
Is btrfs still actively developed? RedHat ditched it and never heard btrfs ever got widely popular, so I take it as an abandonware after all these years of slow progress.
- dralley 7y ago
  It's not abandonware. SUSE uses it as a default, and Facebook uses it too I believe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771
  - ulzeraj 7y ago
    And they use it to deliver some beadm-alike solution to SuSE. Its integrated into their package management so tou can easily boot and rollback stuff from grub in case of a botched upgrade. Its even more interesting with the new transactional-update servers in which the rootfs is read only and upgrades are applied to a new clone which will be promoted to main file system during the next boot.
- aidenn0 7y ago
  I would suggest re-reading the "Myths" section from TFA.