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Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

From	Igor Cicimov <icicimov@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?
Date	2017-12-29 05:00 +0100
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On 27 Dec 2017 6:45 am, "Rick Thomas" <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:


Is btrfs mature enough to use in enterprise applications?

If you are using it, I’d like to hear from you about your experiences —
good or bad.

My proposed application is for a small community radio station music
library.
We currently have about 5TB of data in a RAID10 using four 3TB drives, with
ext4 over the RAID.  So we’re about 75% full, growing at the rate of about
1TB/year, so we’ll run out of space by the end of 2018.

I’m proposing to go to three 6TB drives in a btrfs/RAID5 configuration.
This would give us 12TB of usable data space and hold off til the end of
2024 before needing the next upgrade.

Will it work?  Would I be safer with ext4 over RAID5?

Thanks in advance!
Rick


For production I would stick with RAID10 over RAID5 and XFS over ext4 since
its made for large files which suits your media storage user case. It also
provides for file system backups and restore via xfsdump/xfsrestore and I
also find xfs_freeze useful for consitent backup in case of secondary db
backup lets say. Basically it has everything that ext4 has and some more.

As others have mentioned you should consider ZFS too its been stable for
the past year on linux and the features like compression, dedup, snapshots,
various types of storage pools and even builtin NFS are hard to overlook.

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Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2017-12-26 20:50 +0100
  Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi> - 2017-12-26 20:50 +0100
    Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2017-12-26 23:30 +0100
      Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-12-27 00:00 +0100
      Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-12-27 00:40 +0100
  Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Jan Vales <jan@jvales.net> - 2017-12-26 21:30 +0100
  Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-12-26 22:40 +0100
  Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-27 04:10 +0100
    Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2017-12-27 13:00 +0100
      Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2017-12-27 23:10 +0100
        Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Rick Thomas <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2017-12-28 02:10 +0100
          Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-12-28 02:20 +0100
            Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi> - 2017-12-28 07:10 +0100
              Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-12-28 17:00 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi> - 2017-12-28 18:30 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2017-12-28 20:40 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2017-12-28 20:50 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-12-29 01:00 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Jan Vales <jan@jvales.net> - 2017-12-30 00:50 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2017-12-30 01:30 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Jan Vales <jan@jvales.net> - 2017-12-30 01:40 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2017-12-30 23:40 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-31 07:20 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-12-31 18:50 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-12-31 23:10 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-12-31 23:50 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-01-02 03:10 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-01-02 11:30 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-01-02 17:40 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-02 19:10 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-01-02 20:10 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-03 01:00 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-01-04 00:00 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-04 09:00 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-01-04 20:20 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-04 22:00 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-01-04 12:00 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-01-03 00:10 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-01-03 00:50 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-01-03 02:10 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-01-06 13:30 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-01-03 08:40 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel@aenertia.net> - 2017-12-31 23:20 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-01-03 04:40 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-30 10:30 +0100
                Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-12-28 21:10 +0100
              Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-12-28 18:00 +0100
  Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use? Igor Cicimov <icicimov@gmail.com> - 2017-12-29 05:00 +0100

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