This is why people think BTRFS isn't any good, because someone waltses up and says yeah well it doens't have XXX feature which only _one_ other filesystem has so its clearly lacking and immature. The truth it it works great its sufficently fast and has been stable for years. Yes it doesn't have Raid5 or Raid Z if you would like and I can't import and export pools the way I can in ZFS, but honestly if you jumping on a FS that has been marked stable for all of two days on Linux and your reasoning is you can't do software raid on the other one then best of luck to you.
To be fair: FUD only flourishes in the absence of evidence. People will take btrfs more seriously when distros start shipping it by default and when "serious players" start blogging about how they are using it and how great it works.
Honestly the same can be said about ZFS on Linux (and, quite frankly, even ZFS on Solaris). When it becomes "just the standard filesystem that everyone knows works", then people will stop yelling about the software (though the license mess will be with us forever, sadly).
OpenSuse uses it, and I run it as my root partition. The snapshots are a wonderful system restore mechanism, and I have a cron script to snapshot root after a boot.
The only time I've ever had a problem with btrfs was after a power failure, but btrfsck worked to fix it (although since it isn't in fsck.btrfs, it doesn't automatically run on boot, so I had to use the repair partition).
I've been using it for a year. I have around 8 hard disks in my machine, running half a dozen filesystems from fat32 to ntfs to ext4 to xfs, but I like btrfs the most of the native linux FSes atm.
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This is why people think BTRFS isn't any good, because someone waltses up and says yeah well it doens't have XXX feature which only _one_ other filesystem has so its clearly lacking and immature. The truth it it works great its sufficently fast and has been stable for years. Yes it doesn't have Raid5 or Raid Z if you would like and I can't import and export pools the way I can in ZFS, but honestly if you jumping on a FS that has been marked stable for all of two days on Linux and your reasoning is you can't do software raid on the other one then best of luck to you.
To be fair: FUD only flourishes in the absence of evidence. People will take btrfs more seriously when distros start shipping it by default and when "serious players" start blogging about how they are using it and how great it works.
Honestly the same can be said about ZFS on Linux (and, quite frankly, even ZFS on Solaris). When it becomes "just the standard filesystem that everyone knows works", then people will stop yelling about the software (though the license mess will be with us forever, sadly).
OpenSuse uses it, and I run it as my root partition. The snapshots are a wonderful system restore mechanism, and I have a cron script to snapshot root after a boot.
The only time I've ever had a problem with btrfs was after a power failure, but btrfsck worked to fix it (although since it isn't in fsck.btrfs, it doesn't automatically run on boot, so I had to use the repair partition).
I've been using it for a year. I have around 8 hard disks in my machine, running half a dozen filesystems from fat32 to ntfs to ext4 to xfs, but I like btrfs the most of the native linux FSes atm.