Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.
Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.
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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y
For those without knowledge: Alternatives to BTRFS are what? EXT4 or NTFS?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2y
Mostly ZFS, XFS and ext4
Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Correct, btrfs is a filesystem format.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y
What are the alternatives to it? NTFS? EXT4? ExFAT? FAT32??
sxan@midwest.social · 3 pts · 2y
xfs. ext4 doesn't have a comparable feature set, and nobody is going to use those others as their main filesystems on Linux. bcachefs will be a contender, once it's included in the kernel, or if you're the sort who compiles their own kernels.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 2y
The only file-system that is somewhat comparable to btrfs is OpenZFS. Xfs isn't.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y
Seems like zfs or btrfs?
At least I usually read about storage file system usually being ZFS by default.
jelloeater85@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
ZFS has been around for a long time. Rock solid w RAID. See FreeNAS. ZFS was orig on BSD but AFAIK got ported to Linux a while back.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
It now TrueNAS and both freebsd and Linux use the same implementation (openzfs)
sxan@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah, zfs is what I meant. Or yfs, as in "Y-use anything but btr-FS?"
TCB13@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Yes BTRFS is really good and solid. Usually survives hardware failure much better than the EXT* crap. And sub volumes and snapshots, damn finally a modern filesystem.
poVoq@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
Agreed, I switched over from OpenZFS to btrfs and while it does lack some more advanced features, using btrfs for raid1 disk pools has been a very solid and hassle free experience.
beerclue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
To be honest, I don't see a benefit for btrfs (or zfs). I prefer plain ext4 (no LVM). It's simpler and faster. I have no need for snapshots. Proxmox handles my vms and my working machines are just a collection of dot files... But that's just me. It's good that there are choices.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
Ext4 is slower than btrfs
beerclue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
It's been a while since I looked at benchmarks (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-5.14-File-Systems). It could be these days.
jelloeater85@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I've used Proxmox in the past w it, worked okie. One crazy hypervisor, ton of features. I mostly stick w VMware, it just works. My uptime is measured in years.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
Well I'll never get a uptime like they in proxmox cause I update.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
You can do the same thing with proxmox.
The benefit of proxmox is that it is libre and uses Linux components.
billygoat@catata.fish · 1 pts · 2y
It has been a while since I looked at it but does proxmox support HA replication using btrfs? From what I remember only zfs worked with those features.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
I don't know as I don't use that feature
Glarrf@midwest.social · 1 pts · 2y
My anecdotal experience with btrfs is that it constantly broke in raid 1, no problems with any other filesystems on the exact same hardware and setup. YMMV
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y
How long ago was that? Modern btrfs is pretty stable.
Glarrf@midwest.social · 1 pts · 2y
Last year, unraid, identical SSDs. I changed so many sata and power cables, so many settings.
jelloeater85@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I love it for single drives, but for RAID, ZFS all the way.
conrad82@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
ZFS also supports single drives, is there a reason to use btrfs instead?
jelloeater85@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
IIRC it works with TimeShift, aka time machine for Linux.
amniote@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Its supposed to be called betterFS but Jim Salter keeps calling it butter FS. Doesn't really inspire confidence. At least it's gonna need.. a better name
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
I don't know who Jim is but I just call it butterfs
amniote@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Jim Salter, the former mod of r/zfs ? Former Ars Technica ? Currently in the ' 2.5 Admins' podcast?
He's the hot knife of butter FS.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
Ok that still doesn't ring a bell but he seems important to you so that's good enough for me