> Note that BTRFS is no longer supported in RHEL 8 That is a very interesting fact. Now I'm wondering what is the alternative proposed by RHEL.
-- Patrik Dufresne Service Logiciel inc. http://www.patrikdufresne.com <http://patrikdufresne.com/>/ 514-971-6442 130 rue Doris St-Colomban, QC J5K 1T9 On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 1:23 PM Robert Nichols <rnicholsnos...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 9/12/19 7:55 AM, Patrik Dufresne wrote: > > For a server, I would recommend ZFS without hesitation. Data integrity is > > at the heart of ZFS which makes it a very good choice for backup storage. > > It provides many features that ease the storage management. Quota, > > compression, configurable record size, configurable sync writes, raidz, > > snapshots, etc. > > > > > > For an external storage, like a USB drive, I would probably pick BTRFS > for > > interchangeability reason. ZFS might still be used for an external drive, > > but required the installation of ZFS on Linux to be working which is not > > installed by default. While BTRFS is shipped as part of Linux Kernel. So > in > > case of emergency, you might plug the disk in almost any Linux computer > and > > get access to your files. BTRFS provide checksum and copy on write > feature > > that you want to ensure data integrity. But I would not recommend BTRFS > for > > any RAID setup. RAID5/6 is known to be buggy for a couple of years. I > would > > not trust my data on a BTRFS RAID. But for a single drive it's a very > good > > alternative to ext4 > > Note that BTRFS is no longer supported in RHEL 8. "You can no longer > create, mount, or install on Btrfs file systems in Red Hat Enterprise Linux > 8." (Quoted from > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/ > ) > > -- > Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. > Do NOT delete it. > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: > http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
