Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 12/26/17 11:37, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Is btrfs mature enough to use in enterprise applications?
>
> If you are using it, I’d like to hear from you about your experiences — good or bad.
>
> My proposed application is for a small community radio station music library.
> We currently have about 5TB of data in a RAID10 using four 3TB drives, with ext4 over the RAID.  So we’re about 75% full, growing at the rate of about 1TB/year, so we’ll run out of space by the end of 2018.
>
> I’m proposing to go to three 6TB drives in a btrfs/RAID5 configuration.  This would give us 12TB of usable data space and hold off til the end of 2024 before needing the next upgrade.
>
> Will it work?  Would I be safer with ext4 over RAID5?

Take a look at ZFS before you decide -- either ZFS on Linux or FreeBSD:

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/zfs-dkms

https://www.freebsd.org/


I would suggest building a ZFS pool with two 8 TB mirrored drives.  When 
you want more space, add another mirrored pair.


Live compression and live de-duplication are useful features of ZFS, but 
the killer features are live snapshots and live replication.


David