Subj : Re: Plex Media Server drive upgrade
To   : claw
From : boraxman
Date : Mon Jul 18 2022 00:57:02

 cl> Depends how you set it up initially.  Using it with JBOD will not get a
 cl> performance boost because its not striping anything.  
 cl> 
 cl> BTRFS is also another solution.  The good and bad thing about Linux is
 cl> there are usually 10 ways to do the same thing.  
 cl> 
 cl> A bit of searching and you will find all kinds of mixed reviews and why
 cl> one person like this or that.  A little research and you will find what
 cl> fits you.
 cl> 
 cl> Heres a reddit discussion on which is better.  But at this time both
 cl> have been around for years and are fairly solid.
 cl> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9z7h7u/zfs_vs_btrfs/
 cl> 
 cl> Heres an article from TrueNAS
 cl> https://www.truenas.com/blog/open-zfs-vs-btrfs/
 cl> 
 cl> In the end its really not going to make too much difference for you.  If
 cl> you were some enterprise looking for their next solution I would suggest
 cl> testing both and learning both.  Since your not Google a bit and do what
 cl> feels comfortable.  
 cl> 
 cl> I don't have much experience with BTRFS.  But there are so many guides
 cl> out there how both of these work.  If your using Linux already your
 cl> smart enough to use either of these technologies. 
 cl> 
I use BTRFS for some storage.  I have a VANTEC 2 disk enclosure with RAID support..  I got the VANTEC to just expose the two disks as individual disks and used BTRFS to join then together.

Works great.  Have a few other BTRFS storage partitions.  ZFS is nice, but with Linux it can be a slight issue if you upgrade the kernel and don't have the ZFS module compiled alongside it.  I feel it is overkill for simple situations to use ZFS.

BTRFS's main disadvantage is that the FSCK program isn't there yet, so if there is some corruption, you're better off restoring from a backup than trying to use FSCK which may bork your filesystem up.

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