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minus-squarehersh@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agobtrfs’s RAID features are not production-ready, and at this point I doubt they ever will be. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#Implemented_but_not_recommended_for_production_use https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Warning-RAID5-RAID6 ZFS is definitely more robust.
minus-squareSpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoIt is true for raid 5 & 6. Raid 0, 1, and 10 are supposed to be production ready. I use raid 10 only with btrfs, anything else and I use zfs or mdadm.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI wouldn’t go above two disks
minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoYou have to avoid the raid types is lists as not ready. Looks like facebook uses btrfs without issues
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoRaid 1 is stable. The problem is that btrfs has performance issues with resilvering a large amount of data. That isn’t something that can be fixed as it is a design flaw. Maybe bcachfs will be production ready at some point
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoDon’t forget upstream: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Status.html
btrfs’s RAID features are not production-ready, and at this point I doubt they ever will be. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs#Implemented_but_not_recommended_for_production_use
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Warning-RAID5-RAID6
ZFS is definitely more robust.
It is true for raid 5 & 6. Raid 0, 1, and 10 are supposed to be production ready. I use raid 10 only with btrfs, anything else and I use zfs or mdadm.
I wouldn’t go above two disks
You have to avoid the raid types is lists as not ready. Looks like facebook uses btrfs without issues
Raid 1 is stable. The problem is that btrfs has performance issues with resilvering a large amount of data. That isn’t something that can be fixed as it is a design flaw.
Maybe bcachfs will be production ready at some point
Don’t forget upstream: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Status.html