On 2017-03-13 07:52, Juan Orti Alcaine wrote:
2017-03-13 12:29 GMT+01:00 Hérikz Nawarro <herikz.nawa...@gmail.com>:
Hello everyone,
Today is safe to use btrfs for home storage? No raid, just secure
storage for some files and create snapshots from it.
In my humble opinion, yes. I'm running a RAID1 btrfs at home for 5
years and I feel the most serious bugs have been fixed, because in the
last two years I have not experienced any issue.
In general, I'd agree. I've not seen any issues resulting from BTRFS
itself for the past 2.5 years (although it's helped me find quite a lot
of marginal or failing hardware over that time), but I've also not used
many of the less stable features (raid56, qgroups, and a handful of
other things).
One piece of advice I will give though, try to keep the total number of
snapshots to a reasonably small three digit number (ideally less than
200, absolutely less than 300), otherwise performance is going to be
horrible.
Anyway, keeping your kernel and btrfs-progs updated is a must, and of
course, having good backups. I'm using Fedora and it's fine.
Also agreed, Fedora is one of the best options for a traditional distro
(they're very good about staying up to date and back-porting bug-fixes
from the upstream kernel). The other two I'd recommend are Arch (they
actually use an almost upstream kernel and are generally the first
distro to have new versions of any arbitrary software) and Gentoo
(similar to Arch, but more maintenance intensive (although also more
efficient (usually))).
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