https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/ reminds me of MSs Resilient FS, read some of the feaures it doesn't have & it is like OMG, how can a fs meant for servers not have that yet? One good one is encryption is no, like HOLY ***** MS!.
Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem
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I'm using it on an arch install on my main pc and it seems stable enough. I'm not a power user by any means though so as long as files don't corrupt or disappear then I'm fine with it. I think i read somewhere about better perf (maybe marginal but hey I thought try the new thing) vs zfs so that's why I went for it.
So my understanding is that if you’re using it in a ‘single’ disk setup (as in not RAID) then it’s pretty stable, and that has certainly been my experience running it on Fedora.
RAID on the other hand is still terrifying and I personally would be hesitant to risk it (unless the data has no importance or you have exceptionally good backups)
Overall though, unless the licensing is a factor for you, I would err towards ZFS if I had the choice between the two
When I used to use Linux as my main OS I used OpenSUSE Tumbleweed as my Linux distro and it uses btrfs by default. It was great being able to rollback changes if anything went wrong especially as it was a rolling release distro.
Public developer disagreements endanger bcachefs
Fisticuffs in FOSS-land! Fancy file system's future fraught!
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Fisticuffs over at bcachefs.
Public developer disagreements endanger bcachefs
Fisticuffs in FOSS-land! Fancy file system's future fraught!
Fisticuffs over at bcachefs.
That's like saying water is wet though, there's been nothing but controversy over bcachefs since it got mainlined
I tried btrfs with a single disk but got annoyed by how the compression and deduplication worked, two things I was particularly interested in. If you forced high compression and had a chunk of data it ground the CPU to its knees and affected usability of the system (IMO it should never let that happen, just use less resources and take longer dummy, maybe copy some of it uncompressed to compress later). And if you don't force compression and just let it do its thing it's not smart enough to compress the latter part of a file if somewhere in the middle it has incompressible bits that cause it to stop trying to compress. Apparently you can do a number of manual things to help like setting up subvolumes for different types of data but IMO that's too much to expect from a user.
Sometime this year I'll probably switch to bcachefs and see how that goes. ZFS is a non-starter for me because it's not in the mainline kernel.
Sometime this year I'll probably switch to bcachefs and see how that goes. ZFS is a non-starter for me because it's not in the mainline kernel.
If being mainline is important to you I’d be watching the bcachefs ‘drama’ closely before committing to anything…
Linus is about one bad PR away from getting on a plane and having fisticuffs with the bcachefs developer.
I am, but also don't buy into the drama so much. I'm just giving bcachefs enough time to cook before taking a bite.