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Re: does btrfs have a feature?



On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Stefan K <Shadow_7@gmx.net> wrote:
> In the beginning of btrfs, most blogs, websites, magazins said btrfs will be THE next standard linux filesystem, so now after araound 10years it doesn't look so good, or?
>
> Who use btrfs in production? What do you think - does have btrfs a feature (because ZFS on Linux is more and more stable, RedHat said we don't want btrfs anymore and focus to xfs)
>
> I use btrfs on some new bare-metal machines for the root-disks, because it has a build-in RAID1 and snapshots, I know LVM and md-raid have also this possibilities but in btrfs it is much easier. I don't use it for data or other things(mail, database, etc), cause it is slow compared to ext4/xfs. I'm also wondering why the hell btrfs don't support ssd's for caching like zfs.

Before people start discussing *features*, note that OP uses the
mostly non-standard spelling "feature" when he means "future".


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