On 23/12/16 22:49, sdm wrote:
It's easy to point the finger at the filesystem when in actuality it's shoddy hardware or just because the parity bits get all messed up because of software RAID. The more recent problems with btrfs and RAID had to do with RAID 5/6, and supposedly the issues have been mostly fixed. btrfs does have numerous advantages over EXT4, one being checksumming and another being snapshots. This is just my opinion, but with btrfs and any type of RAID, I will only run it with a true RAID controller card. mdadm and btrfs RAID (btrfs has built-in software RAID) I believe users end up having more problems with in the long run.
Until your raid controller fails, and you can't source an identical replacement. Hardware raid may (or may not) be better than reliable software raid, but hardware raids don't seem to be standardised and losing the card or mobo often seems to translate to losing the entire array. Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org