[Btrfs-devel] btrfs stability

Rekrutacja rekrutacja119 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 8 01:38:08 PST 2008


hello, i'm considering using brtfs for my free hosting server, i really 
really need performance with lots of files and subdirectories, and only 
reiser4 and brtfs are doing good with large numbers.

i know it's not stable yet, but how crazy would you call moving to brtfs 
a free hosting? only users files of course, the whole system is on ext3, 
it doesn't need performance.

but i have like 100 000 users, all have one directory in 
/var/www/virtual, and it is causing xfs and other filesystems 
performance problems.

is it less stable than reiser4 or more? it surely has more future , but 
what is probiality that by system will hang with millions of files and 
hundreds of operations per second ? like 100% ?

i will have full backup made daily, and since it's free hosting , i can 
accept some downtime, just want advice, if it is stable enough to try it 
out, or maybe 100% that i will have huge problems.

thanks



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