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How much safer your data is when using BTRFS over Ext4?
I have read just about every published ReadyNAS review, as well as relevant Netgear materials, including this forum. I have prety good understanding of file systems, NAS concepts, RAID, etc. Yet I am ...
You won't find anybody credible saying stuff like "btrfs is 283% safer than ext4".
What you are seeing is some folks moving away from ext. Oracle started btrfs. Facebook is an early adopter - they hired lead btrfs developers and started apparently started rolling it out a few months ago. These are not companies that want to take risks with their data integrity. OpenSuse 13.2 will make btrfs their default file system in their distributions in November 2014, which will accelerate adoption.
Netgear clearly believes in it - they knew they'd take a hit in the performance measurements, but they went with it anyway. But they aren't alone, there are some leading companies right there with them.
BTW, btrfs is no longer considered "beta", and and the on-disk format is now viewed as "stable" - with software still undergoing rapid development. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
What you are seeing is some folks moving away from ext. Oracle started btrfs. Facebook is an early adopter - they hired lead btrfs developers and started apparently started rolling it out a few months ago. These are not companies that want to take risks with their data integrity. OpenSuse 13.2 will make btrfs their default file system in their distributions in November 2014, which will accelerate adoption.
Netgear clearly believes in it - they knew they'd take a hit in the performance measurements, but they went with it anyway. But they aren't alone, there are some leading companies right there with them.
BTW, btrfs is no longer considered "beta", and and the on-disk format is now viewed as "stable" - with software still undergoing rapid development. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
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