Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious?

Posted by hosteur on Sunday September 22, 2024 @01:32PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Btrfs is 15 years old. It seems to be the Linux ecosystem response to ZFS.

But is it ready for production? If not, will it ever be? Are there alternatives for a modern production ready file system for Linux with compression, deduplication, integrity checks, and so on?

I am curious to know who uses btrfs for anything serious and business critical.

Please share your experiences.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious? by aborsy on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:17PM (#41618843)

Synology uses it in production. At least for some features

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious? by eternityforest on Sunday September 22, 2024 @03:35PM (#41619381)

I use on mine because the volume of write IO is low, it's a spinning disk, and it's mostly just a backup.

And, of course, because it's their default recommendation.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious? by thfuran on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:24PM (#41618888)

And I think it has been the default on opensuse for at least several years.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious? by justmarc on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:32PM (#41618961)

Using it in production on hundreds of machines for several years now. Zero issues so far.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious? by fsflover on Sunday September 22, 2024 @02:01PM (#41618719)

People using Qubes OS find btrfs fast and reliable: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/btrfs-and-qubes-os/6967, https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/ext4-vs-btrfs-performance-on-qu...

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious? by micahdeath on Monday September 23, 2024 @08:21AM (#41625308)

i use it personally, but found reiserfs works better for me on spinning disks - both space and speed. ( lots of small files ) - btrfs, even with compression uses more space

for normal workloads, ext4 is fine for me

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious? by hosteur on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:10AM (#41657991)

I thought reiserfs was abandoned.

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