Same here, Have been using BTRFS for a 'scratch' disk since about 2014.
The disk have had quite some abuse and no issues yet.
I don't use compression, snapshots or any fancy features.
I have recently moved all of the root filesystem to BTRFS with 5x SSD
disks set up in RAID1 and everything is (still) working fine, and I have
been shuffling large amounts of data on this volume. I bet the SSD's
will break before BTRFS does, so the real test is yet to come I guess...
I am on Debian GNU/Linux with kernel 4.9.0-2-amd64 (Debian 4.9.13-1) -
btrfs-progs 4.7.3
However, keep in mind that backups is winning the fight against binary
related traumas :)
Peter Becker wrote:
I can confirm this. I have also no generell issues since the past 2
years with BTRFS in RAID1 and 6 Disks with different sizes and also no
issues with the DUP profile on a single disk.
Only some performance issues with deduplication and very large files.
But i also recommand to use a newer kernel (4.4 or higher) or better
the newest and build a newer version of btrfs progs form source.
I use Ubuntu 16.04 and kernel 4.9 + btrfs progs 4.9 currently.
2017-03-13 13:02 GMT+01:00 Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com>:
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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