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rit1
Apr 26, 2013Aspirant
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I've been watching the market regarding the new 10X and 31X product sets, but even a month after their release there seems to be little available in terms of third part reviews and/or published perfor...
mdgm-ntgr
Apr 26, 2013NETGEAR Employee Retired
rit wrote:
I do have to raise the issue over BTRFS, The fact that it is included in an Oracle produce does not make it stable - it is not itself an Oracle solution. If you go to the BTRFS site ( btrfs.wiki.kernel.org ) it makes the status very clear
While the ReadyNAS does run customised Debian Wheezy/Sid, it is making use of Oracle's open source btrfs code that is used in Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. This is a production ready implementation of BTRFS. While BTRFS is still very much a filesystem that is maturing, it does have its advantages over older filesystems such as EXT4.
rit wrote:
As such it would be nice to know the exact version of the code base that ships with each ReadyNAS OS release so that it will be possible to tell the status of the underlying file system.
ReadyNAS OS 6.0.4 uses btrfs-tools-0.20+20130117 (you can see this by looking at the GPL code: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2649/~/gpl-open-source-code-for-programmers)
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