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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by effie on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:41PM (#37058451)
It's "perpetually half-finished". Bad track record with reliability and loss of data, lots of stories on the internet. It perhaps got better, but RAID5/RAID6 for metadata (standard use of disks) still not oficially recommended and thus standard RAID5/RAID6 is not reliable. Also, look at some FS benchmarks - BTRFS is still much slower than EXT/XFS, and slower than ZFS.

About the only class of scenarious to use BTRFS instead of ZFS is if you want the features, do not need RAID5/6, require support by Linux distributor/kernel developers or for some other (hard to think of) reason you can't use ZFS.

Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by spookie on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @03:01AM (#37059510)
Thanks, that makes sense. I should look more into it
Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by effie on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:27PM (#37096726)
No problem. For more, this looks like a good intro

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...