I will, reluctantly, try to answer - This is how ZFS or systemd flame wars
starts - it brings the worst of the people.
To be honest, I am truly alarmed by you bringing zfs and FUD into this - it
seems that one hand you are asking because of no experience with btrfs and ZFS -
then in the same
Would you mind sharing your experience if you go this route? I tried
btrfs a few years back in my testing did not find it to be mature or
reliable enough to trust my data with and continued using OpenZFS. I
don't know if much has changed but I think the raid write-hole is still
a problem for
Maybe 6 years ago I converted couple of hundred partitions to btrfs on SLES/SLED
- Motivation: OS/update snapshots significantly simplified staged testing and
deployment with supper simple and fast roll back. I had no problems with ext3/4-
->btrfs conversion back then.
That said, I have not
I am thinking of converting my ext3/4 file partitions to btrfs type,
since Suse is pushing for this as their default file system. Has anyone
had any trouble with the conversion or with btrfs itself? I have about
8-10 partitions to change over.
- Randall
