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by 286c8cb04bda 4804 days ago
> Linux will soon have btrfs, which is as good as (if not better than) ZFS.

It may be awesome, but I'd say "soon" is a pretty optimistic timeline.

Our testing pretty conclusively demonstrated that btrfs was still a long way from production-ready; We've seen numerous problems with deadlocks; Filling up a filesystem pretty much ruins it forever -- And these are not new problems.
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runlevel1 4803 days ago
Indeed, "soon" is taking a little longer than expected:

http://lwn.net/Articles/238655/

As far as I can tell, those forecasts have almost always come from outside the project. I don't recall Chris Mason ever saying that it's right around the corner.

In fact, searching for "soon" on the Btrfs wiki produces 0 results.

It's still a very active project, but there's still a lot of work to be done.

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mitchty 4803 days ago
At this point, the amount of complete data losses I've seen on the LKML makes me wonder why anyone wants to promote BTRFS as being better than anything I would want to use for things approaching production.

I may be an old Solaris hand now but ZFS works. Now, not in the future, my home fileservers on FreeBSD have worked for ages and had no issues. Unlike the many complete losses on BTRFS on Linux that I see happening time and time again. SuSE might be promoting BTRFS, but objectively I can't agree with their decision.

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