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Btrfs is a great filesystem for proxmox in raid 1. Stop telling people not to use it (lemmy.zip)
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Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My anecdotal experience with btrfs is that it constantly broke in raid 1, no problems with any other filesystems on the exact same hardware and setup. YMMV

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long ago was that? Modern btrfs is pretty stable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Last year, unraid, identical SSDs. I changed so many sata and power cables, so many settings.

[–] jelloeater85 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love it for single drives, but for RAID, ZFS all the way.

[–] conrad82 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ZFS also supports single drives, is there a reason to use btrfs instead?

[–] jelloeater85 1 points 1 year ago

IIRC it works with TimeShift, aka time machine for Linux.