On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:08:31 +0100 Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Throwing something completely different into the mix, how about > considering btrfs? It's not 100% solid yet, so you need to be careful > with it, but if you back up with rsync and the "in place" option, it'll > give you full backups for the cost of incremental. However its RAID5/6 is not ready yet and even RAID1/10 lack some important features compared to mdadm, not to mention performance optimizations. On the other hand I have a great success running Btrfs without utilizing its own RAID features, but as a regular filesystem on top of MD RAID5/6. > What you MUST do is KEEP AN EYE ON DISK SPACE! The main failure mode for > btrfs I'm aware of, is that a disk full can cause a fatal error. As in > "I've just trashed the disk - it's 'format c:' time". So if you hit 80% > or so, alarm bells should be ringing. Very loud. And this is just an absolute deranged baseless FUD today, or maybe something that might have been true about 5 years ago -- eons in Btrfs development. -- With respect, Roman
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