![]() ![]() I've got several others including my regular home directory. And yes it's been experimental part of that time. I've got a 1.7yo btrfs partition, used regularly, that has experienced zero problems and no performance loss. Where are we with btrfs and is it viable as at alternative to ext4 or zfs.? ![]() I've lost family photos before to random drive corruption, so I'm sensitive to this stuff Combined with the ECC RAM in the server, I feel more comfortable about the integrity of my data than I ever have. I've had it detect (and correct) corruption in a failing disk, detect corruption because of a flaky disk controller that would otherwise pretend to work fine, and detect corruption when a SATA cable came loose. You can set that policy per sub-volume (file system in zfs-speak), so that if you decide that some of your data deserves more redundancy, you can set up a folder that will keep 2 copies of everything, but leave all the other folders at 1 copy. You can also tell ZFS to keep multiple copies of blocks, and it will spread those copies out among the disks. You certainly can set up a mirrored pair (or triplet or quadruplet), but you can also set up what's referred to as raidz, where it stripes the redundancy across multiple disks. I'm old enough to have been burned by random disk corruption, flaky disk controllers, and bad cables. It requires a little bit nicer hardware than a typical NAS, but the data integrity is worth it. I love ZFS, if one can love a file system. Founded by members of the Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and illumos communities, including Matt Ahrens, one of the two original authors of ZFS, the OpenZFS community brings together over a hundred software developers from these platforms." Recent development has continued in the open, and OpenZFS is the new formal name for this community of developers, users, and companies improving, using, and building on ZFS. ZFS is an advanced filesystem in active development for over a decade. "The OpenZFS project launched today, the truly open source successor to the ZFS project. OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers Recognizing that btrfs is still a beta, I stayed with it until. After a few months, performance dropped and then the file system self-corrupted.
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