Am 01.03.2023 um 21:45 schrieb John Mellor
<john.mellor(a)gmail.com>:
BTRFS is massively faster and safer than all other implementations other than perhaps
ZFS, is at least partially error compensating, does not demand identical drives, and can
be easily converted into other RAID classes dynamically as desired.
That's a strong claim. And it is basically as false as it is strong.
There is a lot of discussion about BTRFS regarding performance and stability. And because
BTRFS is so superb fast and reliable, Red Hat has dropped BTRFS in RHEL. They don’t want
something so fast and reliable in their distro. This would probably make the (paid)
support redundant and reduce the profit. And customers could become overwhelmed and
dissatisfied with so much speed. </irony>
BTRFS has a number of advantages, but also some disadvantages. A slightly more accurate
and less operationally blind presentation would be much more appropriate. As is almost
always the case with Technology, it's a matter of balance and differing relevancies.
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