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Btrfs is a great filesystem for proxmox in raid 1. Stop telling people not to use it (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.

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[–] beerclue 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be honest, I don't see a benefit for btrfs (or zfs). I prefer plain ext4 (no LVM). It's simpler and faster. I have no need for snapshots. Proxmox handles my vms and my working machines are just a collection of dot files... But that's just me. It's good that there are choices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ext4 is slower than btrfs

[–] beerclue 1 points 1 year ago

It's been a while since I looked at benchmarks (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-5.14-File-Systems). It could be these days.