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Btrfs is a great filesystem for proxmox in raid 1. Stop telling people not to use it (lemmy.zip)
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Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For those without knowledge: Alternatives to BTRFS are what? EXT4 or NTFS?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

Mostly ZFS, XFS and ext4

[–] Valon_Blue@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct, btrfs is a filesystem format.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are the alternatives to it? NTFS? EXT4? ExFAT? FAT32??

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

xfs. ext4 doesn't have a comparable feature set, and nobody is going to use those others as their main filesystems on Linux. bcachefs will be a contender, once it's included in the kernel, or if you're the sort who compiles their own kernels.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The only file-system that is somewhat comparable to btrfs is OpenZFS. Xfs isn't.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, zfs is what I meant. Or yfs, as in "Y-use anything but btr-FS?"

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like zfs or btrfs?
At least I usually read about storage file system usually being ZFS by default.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ZFS has been around for a long time. Rock solid w RAID. See FreeNAS. ZFS was orig on BSD but AFAIK got ported to Linux a while back.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

It now TrueNAS and both freebsd and Linux use the same implementation (openzfs)