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I guess the difference for me is that BTRFS is dead easy (being mainline, as you said). The knock is reliability, but BTRFS has been rock solid every time I've
by pkulak 6y ago
I guess the difference for me is that BTRFS is dead easy (being mainline, as you said). The knock is reliability, but BTRFS has been rock solid every time I've used it, so from personal experience, it's a no-brainer.
Plus, I love snapper and the way subvolumes and snapshots are handled.
EDIT: I will add that I don't use any RAID. I use BTRFS for snapshots, cow and data integrity on my single drive desktops. I think that's where it ready shines. I don't think anyone should be using EXT4 anymore.
- hardwaresofton 6y agoThank you for this input -- yeah it's just so weird that BTRFS is in the mainline kernel, but no one wants to stand up for it, and people are evidently using it with great success (Facebook for example). I'm also not necessarily going to do any RAID5/6 stuff -- I'm probably just going to keep it safe (for my level of understanding) and do a RAID1/mirror setup and call it a day. The snapshots/cow/data integrity bit is definitely what I'm interested in as well. It feels to me like as long as I run ZFS under my servers I am much safer than anything else (and it's easier/possible to go back in time and undo mistakes). Unfortunately, there's that whole thing about it being hard to boot to.. Is that still a thing?
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoOpenSUSE uses it as the default FS.
- gpanders 6y agoAs does Fedora as of Fedora 33!
- pkulak 6y agoBTRFS hard to boot to? You mean, to have it as your boot partition? I guess that could be true. I still use vfat (I think) for boot, cus I just don't care. :D But for the rest of it, I just have everything in my fstab and it works like anything else. Super easy.