[Cialug] BtrFS

[Jim Cole]

I use it a lot on non btrfs-raid setups where I raid the underlying disks
with hw raid, software raid or just plain ol lvm.
I have seen many boxes corrupt when people use the btrfs-raid levels..more
than any other disk corruption...things I can't recover from.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:06 AM Jim Cole <jrcole at gmail.com> wrote:

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> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Btrfs-Warning-RAID5-RAID6
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> On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:06 AM Theron Conrey <theron at conrey.org> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> > 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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