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Btrfs Async Buffered Writes Slated For Linux 6.1 - 2x Throughput Improvement
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Originally posted by kylew77 View PostLost my whole FS converting from ext4 to BTRFS going from Debian Wheezy to Jessie a few years back. Glad they finally put a warning on the ext4 to BTRFS converter that it is not guaranteed to work.
FWIW, I'm very cautious around filesystems. I use rsync to migrate data between them, although that obviously requires intermediate storage (hopefully via a backup), if your new filesystem is going on the same drive.
Originally posted by kylew77 View PostMy mom's linux computer also had weird issues on BTRFS that were not reproducible on ext4 and in that case I started with a BTRFS system! Too many weird cases with BTRFS when almost everyone I've talked to who has used it has had some weird issue.
Sometimes, an issue can disappear for reasons not related to the filesystem itself. I once ran badblocks on a drive and was getting a large amount of errors. On a hunch, I stopped it and ran fstrim. Afterwards, badblocks reported no more errors. If I had wiped the filesystem and repopulated the drive with something else, I think most mkfs now automatically do a fstrim of the unused space. So, the problem would've disappeared, leaving me to incorrectly blame BTRFS. I'm not saying your mom's machine didn't have some real BTRFS problem, but there cases where problems are mis-attributed to the filesystem.
Something else I wonder is how many "problems" people report with BTRFS are errors detected by its checksum that would've gone silently undetected by non-checksumming filesystems. In such cases, the problem is actually faulty hardware that BTRFS is designed to protect you against.Last edited by coder; 25 September 2022, 12:45 PM.
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Originally posted by user1 View PostMaybe I'm not well informed about file systems in general, but if btrfs really is buggy and unstable as many say, then how come Facebook uses it at its data centers? I mean isn't it a mission critical use case?
While admittedly not always the fastest, BTRFS nowadays is very much ok for any workload.Last edited by _ReD_; 25 September 2022, 12:52 PM.
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Originally posted by Developer12 View PostGreat, now I can loose my data to bugfs twice as fast.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostMaybe ext4 can add async read and writes and then become ext5?
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostMaybe ext4 can add async read and writes and then become ext5?
But in any case, ext4, xfs and f2fs all bench much faster than filesystems like btrfs or zfs. Its apples an oranges, as you are paying for all those features with overhead that the btrfs devs are indeed working to minimize.Last edited by brucethemoose; 25 September 2022, 02:57 PM.
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