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zfs is way simpler to manage than btrfs. also, there does not seem to be a proper guide to btrfs. only random of bits and bytes here and there. zfs on the oth

• _piif 4y ago
  > zfs is way simpler to manage than btrfs Not sure I agree. On ZFS I have to worry about an out of tree kernel module and all the implications of that, extra things like setting the correct ashift, making sure the recordsize is tuned individually in datasets to not destroy performance for specific worksets, ensuring ARC doesn't cause OOM behavior with applications which allocate a lot of memory at once (since it doesn't use the page cache), etc etc. With BTRFS however off the top of my head the only thing I remember doing was making sure nodatacow was set for subvolumes containing databases and VM disks. You are absolutely correct about the ZFS ecosystem containing superior tooling however.