On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 2:01:32 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:45 AM John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > I know you said you wanted to stay with ext4, but going to zfs reduced > > my backup time on my entire system from several hours to just a few > > minutes because taking a snapshot is so quick and copying to another > > pool is also very quick. > > Honestly, at this point I would not run any storage I cared about on > anything but zfs. There are just so many benefits. > > I'd consider btrfs, but I'd have to dig into whether the reliability > issues have been solved. I was using that for a while, but I found > that even features that were touted as reliable had problems from time > to time. That was years ago, however. On paper I think it is the > better option, but I just need to confirm whether I can trust it.
I actually looked into the state of btrfs last week and it's still far from usable and not even close to what ZFS offers. For a good read: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/[1] In short: - raid5/6/.. are still broken. - Missing drive prevent boot unless you tell it to accept a missing drive. - Replacing a broken drive requires a lot of steps to make it sane again -- Joost -------- [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/
