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Like ZFS, Btrfs will scrub the filesystem on request too. Worth considering.
by pja 13y ago
Like ZFS, Btrfs will scrub the filesystem on request too. Worth considering.
- tjoff 13y agoJust as all hardware and all software RAID solutions as well. Although, unlike btrfs, ZFS and a lot of other RAID solutions are considered safe for production use. (while I'm a huge fan of btrfs I've already been waiting many years for it to become stable and the wait is far from over...)
- pja 13y agoTBH, it's probably good enough at this point in time. ext3 didn't really become 'stable' until Rusty stopped developing it and moved on to ext4 :)
- tjoff 13y agoIt's a bit different with a file system that still undergoes heavy development of basic features... http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2013/04/the-btrfs-backup-experiment/ http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2013/04/the-btrfs-backup-exper... Just don't use btrfs where a failure is going to hurt.
- pja 13y agoThat blog post seems remarkably positive to me: "We thrashed this filesystem and pushed some little used features really hard & found a few showstopper bugs that crop up for our use case. We lost no data & discovered a RAID array error that hadn't been picked up before. In summary, btrfs is great, but we can't use it yet."
- tjoff 13y agoYes, it was better than what I would expect. But it completely baffles me that anyone saying that that article seems remarkably positive at the same time as saying btrfs is stable...
- ak217 13y agobtrfs is considered safe for production use.
- tjoff 13y agoBy who? http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/478909-advisory-june-2013-new-users-beware-using-btrfs-filesystem.html http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/i...