Improved Btrfs Scrub Code Readied For Linux 6.4, ~10% Faster

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Improved Btrfs Scrub Code Readied For Linux 6.4, ~10% Faster

The Btrfs scrub code that is used for going through file-system data/metadata to verify checksums and repairing damaged blocks is seeing some improvements come Linux 6.4...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Linux-6.4-Better-Scrub

[S.Pam]

Nice! All improvements are much appreciated

[anarki2]

Another 10-20 years and it'll be decent, we promise!

[Britoid]

Another 10-20 years and it'll be decent, we promise!

btrfs is already a decent filesystem

[user1]

Another 10-20 years and it'll be decent, we promise!

Um, isn't it already decent? For me personally it's quite excellent tbh. Already using it for 2 years.

[GreenReaper]

Hope it improves BTRFS scrub on HDD as well - in theory I guess it would be even more important latency-wise.

[waxhead]

I wonder if this will improvement will be obsolete with the extent tree V2 changes. As I have understood it extent tree V2 requires rewriting scrub from scratch i think.

[GreenReaper]

Perhaps, but can you convert from one to another, and will people actually do that? If not there will still be a lot of old filesystems around.

[tildearrow]

btrfs is already a decent filesystem

Even on HDD, where APFS struggles.

[S.Pam]

Another 10-20 years and it'll be decent, we promise!

I suspect its a comment made in jest. In my experience, Btrfs works really well, both on my private systems and on servers at work.