[ale] Centos

[Michael Trausch]

I will note that btrfs is no longer "beta" and is now used in production environments far larger and with far more robust requirements than anything I have had to build for a client, for sure.

The data structures are sound and it scales much better than ext* for volumes > 2 TB, when you need more than about 20,000 entries in a directory, or when you need to not mess with complex middlewares between FS and block device for any one of a number of reasons. It provides better robustness than LVM or mdraid in many situations too, because all redundancy assurances are per object, not per block device.

Doesn't reduce the need for a quality backup regimen, though. Nothing ever will. 



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> On Jul 25, 2014, at 2:10 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> 
> If your requirements for a file system has not changed and you don't have a
> specific reason to use something else, I'd stay with the default, tested,
> production-quality ext4.  I can't speak for anyone else, but my data is very
> important and I'd rather NOT be a beta tester without a really good reason.