On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 07:06:24 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:

> btrfs isn't horrible, but it basically hasn't been optimized at all.
> The developers are mainly focused on getting it to not destroy your
> data, with mixed success.  An obvious example of this is that if you
> read a file from a pair of mirrors, the filesystem decides which drive
> in the pair to use based on whether the PID doing the read is even or
> odd.
> 
> Fundamentally I haven't seen any arguments as to why btrfs should be
> any worse than zfs.  It just hasn't been implemented completely.  But,
> if you want a filesystem today and not in 10 years you need to take
> that into account.

I switched from ZFS to btrfs a few years ago when it appeared that ZFS
wasn't really going anywhere while btrfs was under active development. It
looks like I backed the wrong horse and should investigate switching back.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

C&W music backward: get yer dog, wife, job, truck, kids, and sobriety
back.

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