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I've been using ZFS on my Linux servers for years and have pretty good experience with it. I've not been following Linux development too much. Is bcachefs usabl

• khajdamowicz 6d ago
  It's not as battle-tested like ZFS with 15+ years of field usage, but it's good enough for me and other users. There's a NAS appliance called NASty and it shares publicly usage stats: https://nasty-telemetry.pages.dev/ https://nasty-telemetry.pages.dev/ Those numbers are NASty alone. There are more users on other systems.
  • cromka 6d ago
    15+ years of ZFS code is also often said as being a nearly unmanageable pile of mess, supposedly to the point that there’s some of the code that maintainers are afraid of touching, and with plenty of unresolved weird bugs (which I experienced myself with data loss). Sometimes starting fresh with one coherent codebase and all features design baked in from the start might be better.
    • lukaslalinsky 5d ago
      It takes 10+ years for any storage engine to iron out all the wrinkles, get it to a state where it's both fast enough, and you can trust it to not lose data. It's stupid to throw it away once it reaches that point.
      • cromka 5d ago
        It's not stupid if the 10+ years code is unmaintainable. Why did you ignore that part?
      • koverstreet 5d ago
        People keep saying it takes 10 years, but that presupposes methods that never improve. Why would we keep doing the same thing over and over again? Wouldn't be much point in that.