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[Discuss] ZFS vs. Btrfs

Subject: [Discuss] ZFS vs. Btrfs
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:16:12 -0500
In-reply-to: <50EB452B.1000401@blu.org>
References: <50E3E953.9060404@gmail.com> <20130107151247.00004e20@unknown> <50EB452B.1000401@blu.org>

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.

References:
- [Discuss] ZFS vs. Btrfs
  - From: tmetro+blu at gmail.com (Tom Metro)
- [Discuss] ZFS vs. Btrfs
  - From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
- [Discuss] ZFS vs. Btrfs
  - From: gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)

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