Linus: Don't Use ZFS

Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by nosequel on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:00PM (#22005684)

btrfs is not at all reliable, so if you care about your files staying working files, it probably doesn't meet your requirements. It is like the MongoDB 0.1 of filesystems.

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by jessant on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:03PM (#22005713)

Seems pretty reliable these days. Are you commenting based upon personal experience? If so, when was it that you used btrfs?

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by reacharavindh on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:11PM (#22005807)

When it comes to file systems “pretty reliable” these days does not sound very good. Reliability had to have been a fundamental requirement for design of a file system. If not, it sounds like putting lipstick on a pig.

Redhat throwing towel on their support for development does not instill confidence either.

Nothing personally against Btrfs. Just an end user making a file system choice saying what I care about.

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by jessant on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:31PM (#22006030)

re Redhat deprecating btrfs:

> People are making a bigger deal of this than it is. Since I left Red Hat in 2012 there hasn't been another engineer to pick up the work, and it is _a lot_ of work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14909843

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Re:Linus: Don't Use ZFS by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday January 09, 2020 @07:50PM (#22007510)

I have a laptop running opensuse, with root on btrfs. Twice I have had to reinstall because it managed to corrupt the file system.

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