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--- Quote ---Nothing even comes close. Altho Win 8 server will have something similar and sooner or later poor Linux will catch up with it's BTRFS. Also, DragonflyBSD has poor man's ZFS - HAMMER.

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I am running BTRFS at my workstation at work.

Never again... Frequently BTRFS is using 100% CPU for hours on end.
At times the whole computer locks up for 15 minutes or so.
Fairly frequently btrfs is using more than half the CPU, in realtime priority threads in the kernel.

All known errors, and they have been reported since 2011 at least, in my quick bug searches, and have been reported fixed at least four times.

I was going to ignore my prejudices and use something developed by Oracle (btrfs, that is).

Right.. Next time I am using ZFS on linux instead.

Also, even when it "works" the performance is deplorable, with 2x SSD:s in a mirror it takes seconds to delete large files (why? zfs does it instantly, and they have the source...) and the I/O bandwidth is about 100Mb/sec.

TMRNetShark:
I think Disc drives will still be used on desktop computers... but as far as mobile devices? Yeah, old technology like spinning disks is not the best type of technology for something that is constantly being shaken, turned, and thrown around. I remember the old iPod 60 GB/80 GB had disc drives and I never felt comfortable jogging with it. XD

nstgc:
Whenever you use software that isn't stable yet, you run the risk that something isn't going to work right. I haven't even bothered trying it yet. Considering that your FS is the #1 piece of software you don't want to get fucked up, it seems very foolish to use butter.

Triltaison:

--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on July 15, 2012, 07:11:16 PM ---I think Disc drives will still be used on desktop computers... but as far as mobile devices? Yeah, old technology like spinning disks is not the best type of technology for something that is constantly being shaken, turned, and thrown around. I remember the old iPod 60 GB/80 GB had disc drives and I never felt comfortable jogging with it. XD

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Oh, wow. You made me think of my poor first-gen PSP. I always feel like I'm going to break the thing with all of its angry demon noises as the UMD spins in it.

nstgc:
The most durable DAP I've owned was a Sony Walkman. Not one of the new ones with the fancy displays, and flash memory. No no, this one had a small 20GB HDD in it, and the thing was a tank. Due to my absent mindedness it went through shit that I wouldn't dream of putting my current DAP through. They were built with the knowledge that they would be jostled. Laptops on the other hand, yeah, those thing shouldn't have HDD in them. ODDs, on the other hand, aren't too much of an issue. The problem with an HDD is if they fail mechanically, then the medium is as good as useless without some special equipment. ODDs on the other hand don't have this problem. If the drive breaks, the medium is almost certainly still good, unless you through the thing off the Empire State Building, in which case it may have Broken. The problem with ODDs is that aside from external storage, and software (games and videos) that big corporations like to pretend are like physical merchandise, they are useless.

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