Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production

Posted by timothy on Friday April 26, 2013 @02:07AM from the delicious-on-popcrnfs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Btrfs is the next-gen filesystem for Linux, likely to replace ext3 and ext4 in coming years. Btrfs offers many compelling new features and development proceeds apace, but many users still aren't sure whether it's 'ready enough' to entrust their data to. Anchor, a webhosting company, reports on trying it out, with mixed feelings. Their opinion: worth a look-in for most systems, but too risky for frontline production servers. The writeup includes a few nasty caveats that will bite you on serious deployments."

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Re:The oracle in the woodpile by larry+bagina · 2013-04-26 02:38 · Score: 5, Interesting

Oracle now owns ZFS. They could relicense it if they wanted to. BTRFS was started before the Sun acquisition but it seems strange* to develop BTRFS as a GPL file system with ZFS-like features while ZFS is mature and reliable today.
* Yes, they're a large corporation and right hand doesn't know what left hand does... but isn't this more like the index finger not knowing what the middle finger is doing?

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