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Re:Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration by ZhongXina on Friday July 26, 2024 @08:12AM (#41077943)
Why should it matter? It's an extremely niche technology that's only interesting to some home users. I see no reasons why other users should care about a RAID level they're not interested in.

(I don't use btrfs or any other COW filesystem because of significantly worse performance with some kinds of workloads, but it has nothing to do with maturity of any of them.)

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Re:Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration by throw0101c on Friday July 26, 2024 @08:22AM (#41078005)
> Why should it matter? It's an extremely niche technology that's only interesting to some home users.

I use RAID-Z2 in lots of places for bulk storages purposes (HPC).

There's a reason why Ceph added erasure coding:

* https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2017/new-luminous-erasure-codin...

* https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rados/operations/erasure-cod...

When you're talking about PB of data, storage efficiencies add up.

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Re:Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration by greenavocado on Friday July 26, 2024 @09:41AM (#41078573)
Wtf? This is a bizzare take. Facebook poured in millions of dollars of R&D into btrfs.
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Re:Bcachefs, an Introduction/Exploration by riku_iki on Friday July 26, 2024 @01:53PM (#41080681)
but they likely put money into features which they are interested in, and not raid56
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