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Can someone recommend a good overview of modern filesystems that covers performance and licensing issues? I liked this article but was left with the question "s
by derbOac 5y ago
Can someone recommend a good overview of modern filesystems that covers performance and licensing issues? I liked this article but was left with the question "so what else do you use?"
It's been awhile (too long really) since I really tried to read up on this area. Last time I did I concluded that it was sort of a mess but lots of things were still in progress.
- bluGill 5y agoUse ZFS if you can. However for legal reasons it is hard to use on linux, which pushes you to FreeBSD (I'm not sure about the others). FreeBSD can replace linux, but you will find a number of places where the software you use assumes linux and so things don't work right. If you are doing NAS all on your own, then don't hesitate to run to FreeBSD. However if you want to a not do it yourself NAS it is a little harder. The most popular/polished commercial NAS is synology based on BTRFS. I personally use TrueNAS which is a great file server, but synology has some nice integration to photo and media applications and so I'm thinking about switching.
- bluGill 5y agoToo late to edit, but I just discovered the synology isn't use BRTF for redundancy, they are somehow using linux device manager in a way that I don't understand. Since I don't understand what they are doing I don't know how it compares to ZFS.