• erock@lemmy.ml
    54·
    2 days ago

    I’ve never used bcachefs and only recently read about some of the drama. I wish the project the best but at this point it is hard to beat zfs

    • daggermoon@lemmy.world
      71·
      13 hours ago

      zfs is confusing as hell for noobs like me. I only really recently learned how to use btrfs. Is there any real reason to use zfs over btrfs on Linux anyway?

      • Tiuku@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        10 hours ago

        There are some niche features, but if you’re not aware of them then no. It’s just licence encumbered btrfs for the majority of us.

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        8 hours ago

        On top of being confusing, I had my whole proxmox node crash because the ZFS pool randomly crashed out multiple times 🤷‍♂️

        Probably due to the consumer grade nvme I was using it on but… Still why?

        Also used a lot of extra ram just to function

        • _stranger_@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 hours ago

          I think it’s just hardware optimization. You get a ton more pain and risk replacing a drive in zfs vs raid10, but it’s more space efficient and flexible to use zfs. This is all academic, because the goal of these systems is a certain level of performance, availability, and data integrity, but not data safety. You need backups (preferably off-site and even off line) backups for that.

          • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            6 hours ago

            To be clear, I didn’t lose any data, ended up moving everything off the ZFS pool and went back to ext, the crashes I had just made the ZFS unavailable until I rebooted the machine.

      • Matriks404@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I have used btrfs exactly once because it was the default on openSUSE, and the filesystem eventually became corrupted and unrecoverable.