Originally posted by bluetomato
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Coming back to important facts - of which you don't have ANY in your posts - BtrFS is superior to ZFS due to pervasive usage of B+ trees.
-BTRFS is the best!
-Why?
-Because it uses B+ trees!
-So? Does that Btrfs superior? Why?
-Just because it is, here is the important fact: "BTRFS is superior because it uses B+ trees!"
-Eh?
Can you show me your important facts? Everyone knows that BTRFS uses B+ trees, but why is that better? Can you show us that important fact?
They may have similar features and hence high-level users like yourself may think that ZFS is the original, since it came earlier. However, BtrFS (named for B+ TRee FS) has a newer and more original approach, which lets it deliver ZFS features in a simpler and more elegant manner. Makes BtrFS more flexible as well. e.g.
You sound like "XXX is better, because it is written in C!! And YYY is written in Pascal!!!". Why do I care what language YYY is written in? As long as YYY is more stable, better, and have more features I dont care if it is written in BASIC.
If ZFS is using a data structure, and BTRFS uses another data structure, why would I care? As long as ZFS is safe, stable and superior I do not care. Your argument is quite strange actually. BTRFS is superior because it uses another data structure. Does that automatically make BTRFS better and more stable? No, it is up to the developers. If the developers are bad, then it does not matter which data structure they are using, or which programming language the software will still be bad.
A bad programmer can screw up things, even if he uses the best programming language and data structures. Whereas a good programmer will succeed even if he uses a bad language and bad data structures.
Can you convert ext4 to ZFS on the fly ? No. But you can convert ext4 to BTRFS on the fly. Why ? Please do some research on why...
Do you mean because BTRFS has a specific feature that ZFS does not have, this single feature makes BTRFS better and more stable etc? Are you serious? There a LOTS of features that ZFS have, that BTRFS lack. Do you want me to write down a list and ask "can BTRFS do this? No? Then it must be bad"?
I registered just to tell you to either talk like an Engineer or STFU. You fill your empty posts with vast amounts of meandering prose to hide the complete lack of any content. Please don't waste any more electrons - there's a kid somewhere in a developing country who needs it more.
Other than that, welcome to this forum!
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