Comment on Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you?

squinky@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• melfie@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ha, I went down the whole Ceph and Longhorn path as well, then ended up with hostPath and btrfs. Glad I’m not the only one who considers the former options too much of a headache after fully evaluating them.

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• MrModest@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why btrfs and not ZFS? In my info bubble, the btrfs has a reputation of an unstable FS and they ended up with unrecoverable data.

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  • unit327@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Btrfs used to be easier to install because it is part of the kernel while zfs required shenanigans, though I think that has changed now.

    Btrfs also just works with whatever drives of mismatched sizes you throw at it and adding more later is easy. This used to be impossible with zfs pools but I think is a feature now?

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just the 5-6 raid modes are shit. And its weird willingness to let you boot a failed raid without letting you know a drive is borked.

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  • non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is apparently not the case anymore, but ZFS is certainly more rich in features and more battle-tested.

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