Re:Linux 5.1 Arrives
by ComputerGuru on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:08PM
(#19850787)
btrfs is a dumpster truck on fire and everyone serious about their data has switched to ZoL or is holding out in hopes that bcachefs won't be a similar clusterfsck (which shouldn't be too hard to do).
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Btrfs has such a bad rep right now, but because such comments like yours lack any specifics I don't know if I should worry if all my systems with a simple btrfs root partition are going to spontaneously corrupt one day. Can anyone give concrete examples of what's wrong with btrfs?
Re:Linux 5.1 Arrives
by silversconfused on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:15PM
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Lilo doesn't support it. Other than that I have no problem with it. I think it had some problems with being declared "prod ready" by some vendors with some certain kernel version, and then a bunch of redhat users went off and tried it with ancient kernels and lost data.
To me, this is just ext4 all over again. That filesystem was _terrible_ in the early days. Ext4 is pretty ok now, just slow...
HAMMER2 is the outside contender. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAMMER2 (summary) and http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEAD... (design document)
It's BSD licensed, among other useful characteristics.