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From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: Ghislain Adnet <gadnet@aqueos.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggestions for building new 44TB Raid5 array
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:01:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220620150132.GM1664812@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e1733e6-471e-e7cb-9588-3280e659bfc2@aqueos.com>

>  I have a stupid question to ask : Why use btrfs here ? Is not mdamd+xfs good enough ?
 
I use btrfs for historical snapshots and btrfs send/receive remote
backups.

>  If you want snapshot why not use ZFS then ? i try to use btrfs myself and meet a lot of issues with it that i did not had with mdadm+ext4. Perhaps btrfs is not suited to that use (here raid5) ?

ZFS is not GPL compatible and out of tree.

>  ZFS has crypt, raid5 like array and snapshot and LARC cache allready so no need to add 4 layer on it. It seems a solution for you.

It has a few of its own issues, but yes, if it were actually GPL
compatible and in the linux kernel source tree, I'd consider it.

It's also owned by a company (Oracle) that has tried to sue others for
billions of dollars over software patents, or even an algorithm, i.e.
not a company I'm willing to trust by any means.

Marc
-- 
"A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R.
 
Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/                       | PGP 7F55D5F27AAF9D08

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-20 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-11  4:51 Suggestions for building new 44TB Raid5 array Marc MERLIN
2022-06-11  9:30 ` Roman Mamedov
     [not found]   ` <CAK-xaQYc1PufsvksqP77HMe4ZVTkWuRDn2C3P-iMTQzrbQPLGQ@mail.gmail.com>
2022-06-11 14:52     ` Marc MERLIN
2022-06-11 17:54       ` Roman Mamedov
2022-06-12 17:31         ` Marc MERLIN
2022-06-12 21:21       ` Roman Mamedov
2022-06-13 17:46         ` Marc MERLIN
2022-06-13 18:06           ` Roman Mamedov
2022-06-14  4:51             ` Marc MERLIN
2022-06-13 18:10           ` Zygo Blaxell
2022-06-13 18:13         ` Marc MERLIN
2022-06-13 18:29           ` Roman Mamedov
2022-06-13 20:08           ` Zygo Blaxell
2022-06-14  6:36             ` Torbjörn Jansson
2022-06-20 20:37       ` Andrea Gelmini
2022-06-21  5:26         ` Zygo Blaxell
2022-07-06  9:09           ` Andrea Gelmini
2022-06-11 23:44 ` Zygo Blaxell
2022-06-14 11:03 ` ronnie sahlberg
     [not found] ` <5e1733e6-471e-e7cb-9588-3280e659bfc2@aqueos.com>
2022-06-20 15:01   ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2022-06-20 15:52     ` Ghislain Adnet
2022-06-20 16:27       ` Marc MERLIN
2022-06-20 17:02     ` Andrei Borzenkov
2022-06-20 17:26       ` Marc MERLIN

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