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Mike Dilger โ˜‘๏ธ · 51w
I like ZFS best. But it requires Solaris portability layer for linux, which isn't great, and since it's not just built into linux it's easy to get into a state where ZFS isn't working. So I moved to...
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How do you know it's btrfs causing the slowdown? I've been using it as my primary filesystem for years (basically since it became default on Fedora), never noticed a slowdown.

I've had other issues though, it's incredibly complex to recover when faults happen. Also, not having a feature complete fsck after all these years is bonkers!
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Mike Dilger โ˜‘๏ธ · 51w
They were kernel btrfs processes that were busy. I also got dmesg errors that were basically timeouts. I spent a lot of time with the disks thinking they were failing, but no they weren't. Also the mounts were taking so long that systemd was giving up. But after some research I upgraded to btrfs...