On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
It's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison though, ZFS is a mature filesystem with years of in the field use, btrfs is still in development and clearly marked in the kernel as experimental.
It's also supported by Oracle and described by their employees (such as Avi) as being ready for production use. Oracle isn't known for losing people's data. On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Btrfs is approximately 5 years old now, by my estimate. How long does it usually take for a new file system to reach the point at which most users in most scenarios don't run into serious problems?
Since they made BTRFS handle lack of disk space better BTRFS has been working well for most users in most common desktop scenarios. I've had some less important machines running BTRFS for /home for well over a year without any problems. But in terms of how long it takes for a filesystem to be regarded as ready, some people claim that it's as long as 10 years elapsed or 100 person years of development. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/