An Introduction to ZFS

Re:An Introduction to ZFS by maddyboo on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:24AM (#25159766)

I’ve been using btrfs for about two years now on my primary machine. Single disk, btrfs-on-luks, on a 970 evo plus. I have never had any stability issues, and as far as I can tell performance is excellent.

I’m not taking any chances, though, seeing as it is “unstable” – I’ve got snapshots and local and remote backups set up and working flawlessly. It’s sooo awesome to be able to pluck older versions of any file on my system whenever I want, and it’s saved me numerous times.

I haven’t tried zfs but I really have no need to. Btrfs does the job for me.

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Re:An Introduction to ZFS by machawinka on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:57PM (#25167764)

I have a similar setup. It all works perfectly until the disk starts filling up. At 95% performance goes down the cliff. You have to clean the disk and defrag. Running 4yo version, I would guess things might have improved since.

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Re:An Introduction to ZFS by maddyboo on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:21PM (#25167851)

This is true. I’ve had it happen a few times too. I try to keep an eye on disk usage and purge things if it gets too high.

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