[OpenIndiana-discuss] BTRFS for OI, anyone?

[John McEntee]

I think BTRFS on openindiana would be a distraction and not worth the effort
at this point in time.

At home I and trialling ZFS on linux (need linux for mythtv) and it works
well. 

I have not tried BTRFS but there a few things I really like about ZFS and
openindiana.

1.) The kernel cifs server is really simile to install and join to a domain,
and the user,group,other ACLs can be removed entirely. Much better for my
use case at work.
2.) Everything under the same zpool/zfs commands from block devices upwards,
and raidz being better than raid 5 (no need to write the entire disk when it
is replaced)
3.) Much more mature, out in production use for 6 years.
4.) Everything is configured on the filesystem. I have had a major failure
of a root disk (not mirrored, under testing). All I did was reinstall,
import the pool tank and rejoin the windows domain, and everything else
worked as it was before the failure.
5) ZFS send and receive is great for a DR server.


I believe BTRFS would limit all of the above, but I don't think is it even
worth my time researching at the moment. 


John


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