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I first started using zfs in 2005 when my hardware raid failed. Since then I’ve moved the disks to a new server in 2009 and replaced all the disks twice (one at

by bakul 7y ago

I first started using zfs in 2005 when my hardware raid failed. Since then I’ve moved the disks to a new server in 2009 and replaced all the disks twice (one at a time for redirecting). Finally I built a new server this year. This time I’m using zfs send/recv to copy data to the new disks. The old server is still working 10 years later & its latest disks have been in use 24x7 for over 5 years now. Zpool scrub on the old server takes days now (compared to one hour on copied zpool on the new server). Even back in 2009 I heard some Linux enthusiasts tell me how btrfs was going to be better than zfs!

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
> Even back in 2009 I heard some Linux enthusiasts tell me how btrfs was going to be better than zfs! What's sad is that it should have been; the CDDL situation is really unfortunate. Honestly, even if BTRFS performance were worse, it would be worth it in order to have a fully-supported mainlined FS... but instead its reputation is for data loss, so it's dead (yes, I know it works if you're careful, but that's a terrible quality in a filesystem).