[Cialug] BtrFS

[Jim Cole]

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Btrfs-Warning-RAID5-RAID6


On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:06 AM Theron Conrey <theron at conrey.org> wrote:

> I think at some point striving for feature parity so something that
> continues to evolve misses the opportunities to speak to the strengths it
> currently has.  "half baked" may be unfair, but "unfinished" applies to
> everything, ZFS included.
>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:03 AM Shane Nehring <shane at ntoast.com> wrote:
>
> > Because the goal of the project starting out was to make a GPL licensed
> ZFS
> > clone, and it's not there yet.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 10:54 L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >
> > > The thought distilled in my mind overnight, .. would love to hear
> > > responses:
> > >
> > > We have been using BtrFS for many years for it's invaluable recovery
> > > options as a root partition (and as the default root FS for OpenSuSE),
> ..
> > > so I was understanbly confused at the presentation last night
> classifying
> > > it as "unfinished", or even "half baked".
> > >
> > > So, .. my question is this:
> > >
> > > Givem that the majority of installations ARE running a single device
> > (e.g.
> > > SAN, HW RAID, etc.), why would the ability to run multiple devices have
> > > anything at all to do with the finish level of the file system??
> > >
> > > Really seems like a red herring to me, .. dissing a really useful
> > > filesystem with negatives that don't even apply?
> > >
> > >         TIA!
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