Re:In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'
by mapgrep on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:16AM
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It’s also still considered experimental and according to kernel.org wiki “under heavy development.” ZFS was released for production use 14 years ago.
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Re:In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'
by viraptor on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:42AM
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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/btrfs/Kconf...
None of the options are marked experimental. (Specific features are marked unstable on the status page)
"Under heavy development" does not mean anything about stability. The kernel itself is under heavy development. ZoL is under heavy development. The disk format is stable, which is what matters.
SUSE provides commercial support for btrfs and uses it as the default. That's pretty much as non-experimental as is gets.
Re:In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'
by mapgrep on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:51AM
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In the past, when data integrity issues emerged, btrfs devs have stated that it is not ready for production. Has there been an announcement to the contrary? If btrfs is production ready, is this clearly stated somewhere? Solaris has defaulted to ZFS at least since version 11 first released eight years ago.
Update - also it appears Suse enterprise uses btrfs for the root os filesystem but xfs for everything else including by default /home. To me, this seems telling? If it’s so solid why not use it for /home?