Re:A new wave of Linux applications
by doublepg23 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:36PM
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First time I’ve heard “BTRFS” and “reliability” together.
Re:A new wave of Linux applications
by Teknoman117 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:48PM
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btrfs has come a long, long way. At this point the only major remaining problem is the parity raid implementation, so most people just run it on top of mdraid. btrfs native striped and mirrored raid are stable at this point.
In my subjective experience, I've been using it for the last 6 years and have not had a fault thus far.
Re:A new wave of Linux applications
by doublepg23 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @08:18PM
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I'm giving it a shot once again (fourth time I believe?) but even Jim Salters article from last year really highlight the short comings. He does focus on RAID like you mention, however the tooling in general in full of papercuts as he shows and IME. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...
I've been running it on my primary nvme drive for the past year and have had no issues and performance has been surprisingly good. Raid for a high-end nvme drive is a bit out of my budget.
I didn't say it outright, but I was comparing to NTFS. EXT4 is also extremely reliable, albeit with the backup features of BTRFS.
They are different paradigms. The command is a power tool, suited for expert users (vs intermediates and beginners)
The stance is also different of the command line. As someone who also does creative work, the command line is simply not a tool I can use. “Paint Logo” is not a command :)
Making Linux a diverse tool for different stances and operations would be a great help for adoption.
I'm fine with GUI tools, I use them too. I just like the CLI for lots of things that I do. I write lots of scripts for various tasks, set them up as startup scripts or cron jobs and I'm done. GUIs are terrible for automation.
All of my calendar/doc/notes needs are in the cloud, so I'm dependent on a browser there. I don't have any display issues and general performance is better than Windows 10. I mean, just being able to run BTRFS is a game changer in reliability. All that said, I still love MacOS and use it for my work laptop, but Windows is just a hot mess at the moment and not something I want to subject myself to.