Hello, On 8 July 2016 at 16:55, <german...@ya.ru> wrote: > I value stability of a FS over other considerations like shiny new features > and performance. I know that Debian Stable includes only that versions of > software that were considered rock-solid and mostly bug-free. But on the > other hand I read documentation for version of a Linux kernel of Debian > Stable and it says that btrfs is under heavy development and isn't suitable > for any uses other than benchmarking and review. Proof-link: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/Documentation/filesystems/btrfs.txt?id=refs/tags/v3.16.36 > > > I'm really confused, I don't know whom to believe. >
Please don't use btrfs. Especially not without understanding fully what one is getting oneself into. It is checksuming, copy of write filesystem, however it has degrading over time performance and stability/recovery issues. In stress testing, and compliance testing it's not the best zfs comes out better than btrfs on the linux kernel. d-i guides one to use sane / general purpose defaults, and at the moment that is ext4, please use that. xfs is good as well, but I have not tested it as much as I did ext4/zfs/btrfs. Please have backups. If you don't have backups start doing them now. btrfs-tools/-progs package maintainer here. -- Regards, Dimitri.
