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It's a feature that other file systems have: why should I choose Btrfs when (e.g.) ZFS can do everything it can and more on top of that? I remember when Btrfs
by throw0101c 3y ago
It's a feature that other file systems have: why should I choose Btrfs when (e.g.) ZFS can do everything it can and more on top of that?
I remember when Btrfs was announced in 2007 as I was already running Solaris 10 with ZFS in production (and ZFS had non-"experimental" RAID-5-like RAID-Z from day one). Here we are 15+ years later and Btrfs still doesn't have it?
- pantalaimon 3y agoThe nice thing about btrfs is that you can add/remove drives at will. That allows for easy expansion of an existing pool.
- viraptor 3y agoI'm just saying it's not a pitfall, because it's clearly documented up front and warned about. That's orthogonal to whether you should choose this filesystem and why a feature is implemented or not.
- chasil 3y agoThe one thing that ZFS cannot do is defragment a pool. There are abuse patterns that are toxic for ZFS pools (and all other filesystems). Btrfs appears to be able to repair this damage. https://tim.cexx.org/?p=1236 https://tim.cexx.org/?p=1236 https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_summer17_02_conway.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_sum...