btrfs - don't do it!

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On 18 April 2015 at 14:38, Cody Smith <cody.smith9202 at gmail.com> wrote:

> And why did you think BTRFS would be usable?



Because OpenSUSE is now defaulting to it, so I thought I'd give it a spin.
I suspect its going to give them a world of grief.



> it's nowhere near stable, and leagues behind ZFS (which is the filesystem
> in BSD BTRFS is /supposedly/ competing with, and it's doing just that, but
> very poorly). BTRFS still has a long ways to go before it's stable enough
> to be used by most users.




Oh I don't disagree and I very much wish ZFS was availble for easy
boot/root partition installs for the ubuntu range. I uses it at work for
shared storage for a VM Cluster - RAIDZ setup with SSD ZIL/Slog caching,
its great.

-- 
Lindsay
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