> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
> 
> In my experiencein the workplace there have been many power failures. At
> Riverside we even had a bus hit a pole knocking out power to both us and
> the T. At IBMduring Sandy the UPS failed. Essentially, failures do
> occur. Fortunately our NAS system (Netgear readyNAS 3100) has been very
> clean. At home, I have not experienced any corruption on my ext4
> filesystems, but I don't beat it up that much.
> 
> In any case, I have always been a fan of btrees. I used reiserFS years
> ago, and many years ago I used IBM's VSAM which was essentially a
> btree-based system.
> 
> Another thing I like about btrfs is that you do not have to partition
> the physical drives.

All true, for both btrfs and zfs.  Technically, zfs uses Merkle tree, but 
effectively the same thing.

_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Reply via email to