[Discuss] ZFS vs. Btrfs

Rich Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 17:16:12 EST 2013


On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:59:07 -0500
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> In my mind the important issue is resistance to drive failure. What
> happens in both ZFS and Btrfs in the case of a power failure.

Both file systems use ordered metadata writes. Power failure during
write operations will cause data loss but should not cause corruption
of existing data (the power loss itself may have other ideas).

-- 
Rich P.



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