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Rockstor, a Linux and BTRFS Based NAS Solution

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Re: Rockstor, a Linux and BTRFS Based NAS Solution

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Post by yawniek »

the gui looks pretty cool. personally i would not trust btrfs for a nas. i have made not the best experience while running various production servers with btrfs. i switched (back) to zfs and never looked back, it its just better in every regard.

i also administer a freenas box for a small business and this stuff is rock solid, i would only wish a _easy_ solution to get the permission stuff right in a multi user setting.

none the less, thumbs up for creating this, cool stuff!

Re: Rockstor, a Linux and BTRFS Based NAS Solution

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Post by nisa »

yawniek wrote: post #2

the gui looks pretty cool. personally i would not trust btrfs for a nas. i have made not the best experience while running various production servers with btrfs. i switched (back) to zfs and never looked back, it its just better in every regard. i also administer a freenas box for a small business and this stuff is rock solid, i would only wish a _easy_ solution to get the permission stuff right in a multi user setti…

I'm in the process to rolling out btrfs on a lot of production servers (no raid, just subvolumes and compression) using Ubuntu 14.04 - what problems did you encounter with btrfs?

Re: Rockstor, a Linux and BTRFS Based NAS Solution

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Post by polarix »

yawniek wrote: post #2

the gui looks pretty cool. personally i would not trust btrfs for a nas. i have made not the best experience while running various production servers with btrfs. i switched (back) to zfs and never looked back, it its just better in every regard. i also administer a freenas box for a small business and this stuff is rock solid, i would only wish a _easy_ solution to get the permission stuff right in a multi user setti…

> better in every regard

Can't remove raidz's from zpools, but `btrfs device delete` exists.

Re: Rockstor, a Linux and BTRFS Based NAS Solution

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Post by cjbprime »

nisa wrote: post #4
yawniek wrote: post #2

the gui looks pretty cool. personally i would not trust btrfs for a nas. i have made not the best experience while running various production servers with btrfs. i switched (back) to zfs and never looked back, it its just better in every regard. i also administer a freenas box for a small business and this stuff is rock solid, i would only wish a _easy_ solution to get the permission stuff right in a multi user setti…

I'm in the process to rolling out btrfs on a lot of production servers (no raid, just subvolumes and compression) using Ubuntu 14.04 - what problems did you encounter with btrfs?

I've hit problems like reaching ENOSPC (even though the data extents were only 70% full) on a colocated server, and there isn't enough free space to run a balance operation to get more free space. (The docs literally suggest inserting a USB stick and adding it to your array to help make the balance work..)

Also, the fsck tool is still very immature. It takes many years to get good at detecting and recovering from corruption.

Re: Rockstor, a Linux and BTRFS Based NAS Solution

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Post by stock_toaster »

sciurus wrote: post #8
jms703 wrote: post #3

no afp support?

Since Apple has supported SMB for a long time, and actually made it the default protocol in 10.9, is there much need for AFP?

  > Since Apple has support SMB for a long time, and actually made it the default
  > protocol in 10.9, is there much need for AFP?
Time machine backups still require afp I believe -- unless you use the "TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes" option.
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