On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 2:01:32 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:45 AM John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:

> > I know you said you wanted to stay with ext4, but going to zfs reduced

> > my backup time on my entire system from several hours to just a few

> > minutes because taking a snapshot is so quick and copying to another

> > pool is also very quick.

> Honestly, at this point I would not run any storage I cared about on

> anything but zfs. There are just so many benefits.

> I'd consider btrfs, but I'd have to dig into whether the reliability

> issues have been solved. I was using that for a while, but I found

> that even features that were touted as reliable had problems from time

> to time. That was years ago, however. On paper I think it is the

> better option, but I just need to confirm whether I can trust it.

I actually looked into the state of btrfs last week and it's still far from usable and not even close to what ZFS offers.

For a good read:

In short:

- raid5/6/.. are still broken.

- Missing drive prevent boot unless you tell it to accept a missing drive.

- Replacing a broken drive requires a lot of steps to make it sane again

Joost