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  • vividspecter@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldTell me why I shouldn't use btrfs
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    21 hours ago

    No reason not to. Old reputations die hard, but it’s been many many years since I’ve had an issue.

    I like also that btrfs is a lot more flexible than ZFS which is pretty strict about the size and number of disks, whereas you can upgrade a btrfs array ad hoc.

    I’ll add to avoid RAID5/6 as that is still not considered safe, but you mentioned RAID1 which has no issues.









  • The issues are mainly under high CPU load. A RT kernel will continue to maintain low latency without xruns but a normal kernel may not. The compromise option is full preemption which generally does a good job but doesn’t have the issues with throughput that can occur with a RT kernel.

    Although maybe you meant full when you indicated a preemptive kernel (voluntary preemption is still the default I believe but it’s kernel dependent).