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Btrfs is a great filesystem for proxmox in raid 1. Stop telling people not to use it (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes BTRFS is really good and solid. Usually survives hardware failure much better than the EXT* crap. And sub volumes and snapshots, damn finally a modern filesystem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I switched over from OpenZFS to btrfs and while it does lack some more advanced features, using btrfs for raid1 disk pools has been a very solid and hassle free experience.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My anecdotal experience with btrfs is that it constantly broke in raid 1, no problems with any other filesystems on the exact same hardware and setup. YMMV

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

How long ago was that? Modern btrfs is pretty stable.