Ask HN: Do you use btrfs for anything serious?

6 pointsposted a year ago
by hosteur

Item id: 41618523

7 Comments

aborsy

a year ago

Synology uses it in production. At least for some features

eternityforest

a year ago

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.

thfuran

a year ago

And I think it has been the default on opensuse for at least several years.

justmarc

a year ago

Using it in production on hundreds of machines for several years now. Zero issues so far.

micahdeath

a year ago

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

a year ago

I thought reiserfs was abandoned.