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Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious?

6 points by hosteur ↗ HN
Btrfs is 15 years old. It seems to be the Linux ecosystem response to ZFS.

But is it ready for production? If not, will it ever be? Are there alternatives for a modern production ready file system for Linux with compression, deduplication, integrity checks, and so on?

I am curious to know who uses btrfs for anything serious and business critical.

Please share your experiences.

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aborsy
Synology uses it in production. At least for some features
thfuran
And I think it has been the default on opensuse for at least several years.
eternityforest
I use on mine because the volume of write IO is low, it's a spinning disk, and it's mostly just a backup.

And, of course, because it's their default recommendation.

justmarc
Using it in production on hundreds of machines for several years now. Zero issues so far.
micahdeath
i use it personally, but found reiserfs works better for me on spinning disks - both space and speed. ( lots of small files ) - btrfs, even with compression uses more space

for normal workloads, ext4 is fine for me

hosteur
I thought reiserfs was abandoned.