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Is BTRFS a lost cause?
- istvan__ 12y agoI don't see what segment would BTRFS cover. Great comparison though.
- shodanshok 12y agoBTRFS is being developped as a full-featured filesystem and the only true competitor to ZFS. Somewhat we can read also articles as that: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-LCA-2015-Btrfs http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-LC... The reality is that, while BTRFS feature list is impressive, ZFS is second to none here. Moreover, ZFS is _way_ faster. The real problem is what while BTRFS has good features, its incredible slowness with rewrite/append heavy scenarios make it almost irrilevant in the enterprise space (unless you plan to use it for something as a fileserver, with lots of small files to manage). Surprisingly, that don't stop some companies (as Netgear) to produce BTRFS-based NAS appliance and to sell them as "virtualization-ready". I can only imagine their slowness in VM handling...