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[waxhead]

Yes, absolutely. It is a bit slow , but then again swapping usually is ...

[waxhead]

While I agree with you on Gnome 3 / XFCE , I do *not* agree with you regarding Debian stable vs testing. While testing is good and my preferred choice...

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Filesystem compression is irrelevant for swap on BTRFS since BTRFS does just reserve an area where the swap file will stay safe (as far as I understood...

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To try to explain why BTRFS is slow in, BTRFS's implementation of "RAID" 1 and 10 is NOT yet optimized for parallel workloads. It simply use...

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I do not agree, if you use a standard RAID you will get corruptions, not knowing where (if both sets are broken). If you use BTRFS you will know for sure...

[waxhead]

A common misconception is that BTRFS offers RAID... it does not. It uses the RAID terminology since that the closest match you can get. If you look at...

[waxhead]

They did? I was under the impression that closing the write hole on all but raid0 requires a separate journal device, which means that by default it is...

[waxhead]

Yes it has. There have been lots of patches to try to clean things up. The write hole are the remaining stuff that needs to be fixed. (note that other...

[waxhead]

Care to share some details? How many disks , what kind of setup? Post to the mailing list? etc etc... I would love to dig into this a bit....

[waxhead]

Well for the reasons you point out ZFS and XFS are really not (today) competitors to BTRFS. ZFS is the closest one (and a damn good filesystem), but as...

[waxhead]

Alright... so let's do a quick compare between bcachefs (according to it's webpage) and BTRFS which is the only real competition.
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[waxhead]

Debian is in three official flavors. Stable, Testing and Unstable.
Debian testing (buster) is on 4.18 , but the good thing about Debian (as long...