Comment Re:Btrfs (Score 1) 135
I see what you mean, but this is just a personal computer. I wouldn't be using this in any sort of production systems (nor am an IT guy).
What appealed to me about using Btrfs was that I could dynamically add more disks as I was inclined to upgrade, I could get data striping, snapshots, data deduplication (not implemented yet though), and since I was planning on running Linux, there was no practical solution for using ZFS. The fact that I couldn't pull the drive or that corruption might take things down doesn't concern me too much because if I wasn't using Btrfs I'd be using Ext4 and I wouldn't imagine it would be any better.
The documentation could probably use a little fleshing out, but in the little I've done (very little) setting things up, it was pretty straight-forward. As I said, I have two drives in my pool. When I installed Ubuntu, I only selected one for /home as Btrfs and then later added the second and rebalanced. Both adding and balancing were two simple commands (that I can't remember off the top of my head but were something like 'btrfs add' and 'btrfs balance')
I don't know about any automatic sharing, though, sorry. I'm sure it'd be pretty simple to set it up, but it might not be optimized for those cases.
What appealed to me about using Btrfs was that I could dynamically add more disks as I was inclined to upgrade, I could get data striping, snapshots, data deduplication (not implemented yet though), and since I was planning on running Linux, there was no practical solution for using ZFS. The fact that I couldn't pull the drive or that corruption might take things down doesn't concern me too much because if I wasn't using Btrfs I'd be using Ext4 and I wouldn't imagine it would be any better.
The documentation could probably use a little fleshing out, but in the little I've done (very little) setting things up, it was pretty straight-forward. As I said, I have two drives in my pool. When I installed Ubuntu, I only selected one for
I don't know about any automatic sharing, though, sorry. I'm sure it'd be pretty simple to set it up, but it might not be optimized for those cases.