Taking the BTRFS plunge

Lists lists at benjamindsmith.com
Thu Jul 17 22:40:39 UTC 2014


On 07/17/2014 03:27 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 15:08 -0700, Lists wrote:
>> As a ZFS on Linux user, I noticed that there are btrfs packages for
>> Fedora 20. Can anybody here comment on their stability? Are you
>> adventurous enough to use btrfs on root ? Has it saved your data? Have
>> you lost data because of it?
>>
>> Context: I'm planning on moving /home on my laptop to ZFS/BTRFS soon.
>>
>> Ben
> Been using it for root on an SSD for around 3 months. Zero issues so
> far. I do run nightly backups of course.
>
> poc
Backups are the reason why I want ZFS/BTRFS. Do you use BTRFS 
send/receive or some other solution?



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