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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    Agreed, I switched over from OpenZFS to btrfs and while it does lack some more advanced features, using btrfs for raid1 disk pools has been a very solid and hassle free experience.

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    Yes BTRFS is really good and solid. Usually survives hardware failure much better than the EXT* crap. And sub volumes and snapshots, damn finally a modern filesystem.

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    To be honest, I don’t see a benefit for btrfs (or zfs). I prefer plain ext4 (no LVM). It’s simpler and faster. I have no need for snapshots. Proxmox handles my vms and my working machines are just a collection of dot files… But that’s just me. It’s good that there are choices.

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    I’ve used Proxmox in the past w it, worked okie. One crazy hypervisor, ton of features. I mostly stick w VMware, it just works. My uptime is measured in years.

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      Well I’ll never get a uptime like they in proxmox cause I update.

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      You can do the same thing with proxmox.

      The benefit of proxmox is that it is libre and uses Linux components.

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    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

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    It has been a while since I looked at it but does proxmox support HA replication using btrfs? From what I remember only zfs worked with those features.

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    Its supposed to be called betterFS but Jim Salter keeps calling it butter FS. Doesn’t really inspire confidence. At least it’s gonna need… a better name

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        Jim Salter, the former mod of r/zfs ? Former Ars Technica ? Currently in the ’ 2.5 Admins’ podcast?

        He’s the hot knife of butter FS.

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          Ok that still doesn’t ring a bell but he seems important to you so that’s good enough for me