Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : claw
From : 2twisty
Date : Sat Apr 23 2022 12:22:51

 cl> I have never played around with BTRFS and have thought about it.  Is it
 cl> very difficult to get setup initially?  And afterwards is it as stable
 cl> as just using the old ext4?  

Its been a few years since I plaed witg BTRFS.  Back then, there were some known issues with its RAID5/6 implementation that could result in data loss.  Don't know if that's still a thing.  But their RAID10 implementation was pretty good.

I don't recommend BTRFS unless you are doing redundancy -- one of the key benefis of BTRFS is protection against bitrot.

That all said, I use ZFS now -- MUCH more mature than BTRFS, and it is available for Linux systems now (used to be a BSD only thing).  ZFS has all the plusses of BTRFS, and is even more aggressive about protecting data than BTRFS is.

BTRFS is easier to set up than ZFS, but IMO, ZFS is the vastly superior of the two.

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