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by Teknoman117 2340 days ago
My experience has been the same. Admittedly, I've not tried native BTRFS parity raid (I'm sitting the volume on top of mdraid). But, I ran the "mkfs.btrfs" 5 years ago at this point for my desktop and no data loss yet. I back things up religiously, so I'm not too worried about the volume failing, but it'll be nice if btrfs parity raid gets stabilized, because I could replace my current NAS storage config.

I used to use ZFS on my NAS, but after running it for a year and fiddling with it, I wasn't able to tune it in a way I liked. I always had random performance problems and zvols were super slow. It's now dm-integrity on all disks, an mdraid raid6 volume over those, with LVM2 on top of that and mirrored NVMe disks as a read and write cache.

I also wish BTRFS would add extents at some point so you could run virtual machine images from it without weird performance issues from time to time (although I imagine this is less of an issue on SSDs because they're "fragmented" inside anyways).