[kwlug-disc] Filesystems for backups

[Paul Nijjar]

I remember you telling us at WWITPro a few years ago that ReFS sucks.
But that was a few years ago. Does it still suck? It is 2019 now.

- Paul

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 09:22:53PM -0400, Jason Eckert wrote:
> Using ZFS raidz (or raidz2 or raidz3) seems like the best fit for what you
> want.
> Yes, you can't add more drives easily to a raidz, but this is minor,
> because you can simply use multiple ZFS pools to extend storage.
> Speed and data reliability are the biggest benefits of ZFS.
> I do prefer FreeNAS myself (since I've used BSD for what seems like
> forever), but it works very well on Linux (I just wish ZFS could legally be
> incorporated into the kernel).
> ReFS sucks.
>