Question for Linux admins: As of Debian 12 (bookworm), Linux kernel version 6.1, is btrfs reliable? btrfs has such a bad reputation for being unreliable, but I don't know if that's finally fixed.
@Matt Campbell Recently I went with btrfs raid 1 setup with two hard drives in my home computer instead of classic mdadm based raid array. Features that caught my attention include:
Ability to use more than two discs.
Ability to replace discs with larger ones gradually growing the file system in the process.
Reportedly better redundancy as compared to the mdadm based raid array.
I have created this on Arch linux with 6.11 kernel which is now upgraded to 6.12 kernel though. And I am running this kind of setup for a few weeks only with no incident. So perhaps you should wait for some more success stories before using it with your business data.
Edit: Oh, I've forgotten, I think raid 5 and raid 6 configurations are considered unstable. Mirroring should be fine for a few years already.
I’ve used it as my primary file system for years now. It’s been great overall. I have had some data loss in the past when using with raid 5 or 6, and that’s typically where the dangers lie with it still. (Most of the data was recoverable but it was a pain.) My current btrfs setup is a span across 3 hardware raids, so it’s more like lvm but I can add or remove as needed, and don’t have to worry about the raid5/6 issues.
using btrfs since like 2020 on Arch in simple non-raid config with compression on all my home and work laptops and workstations. didn't have issues. Only noticed a lot of snapshots caused some slowdowns, so I don't use them much.
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My mother-in-law set up the #Nextcloud app to back up photos from her #Android phone. However, no photos were uploaded. I thought she did something wrong, but in fact it was set up correctly, including all permissions. But nothing was even queued for upload. I couldn't make it work either.
I got a recommendation for #FolderSync, but it's freemium and it felt fishy with all the data consent dialogs. Then I went to #FDroid and discovered #RoundSync and wow, it's a great piece of software, clean, lean and does reliably what I want it to do. The sad fact is that @newhinton, app developer, gets 3€/month for it on Liberapay. We really need to get more money into open source apps.
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Yesterday, Trump revoked Biden's executive order on AI regulation.
In other news, related and moronic, the executive orders that Trump signed yesterday all show spelling mistakes and grammatical errors that are clear indicators that they were produced using AI.
How do grammatical errors and spelling mistakes indicate that the orders were produced using Chat GPT?
Language models don't usually make these.
Extremely blant writing, repetitive sentence and paragraph structure, and frequent use of idioms that are characteristic of English as it is spoken in many African countries? Yeah, that's Chat GPT. Not obvious spelling and grammatical errors though.
To me, this feels more like sloppy humans with extremely tight deadlines, and somebody with an agenda against AI trying to manufacture outrage.
@miki There are whole paragraphs that are definitely AI produced, and formatting errors that only AI would produce. I haven't seen anybody with an agenda against AI talking about this. It's just that these are important legal documents that have to be exactly right, and should be produced by legal experts. They clearly haven't been.
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@miroslavbucek Ptal jsem se kolegů a je to fakt kvůli menšímu množství reklam, protože na začátku roku ještě není domluveno tolik inzerce. Redakčního obsahu by mělo být zhruba stejně.
@miroslavbucek Aha, tak v tom případě cajk. Jinak tohle si myslím, že stojí za zmínku v editorialu. Ne, že bych počítal strany, ale když jsem to číslo chytl do ruky, tak hned působilo lehčeji. Asi nebudu jediný, kdo si toho všimne a když je to na přelomu roku, zredukování obsahu se jako vysvětlení nabízí. Odebírám třeba ještě Respekt a tam jakoukoliv takovou změnu v editorialu vysvětlují.
No teď je tady "zima", jak jsem teď na ubytování uvnitř tak to není vůbec problém. Nejhorší byly akorát 2 dny kdy jsem měl ráno pod nulou, teď jsem ve Valencii a je tady cca 20° přes den takže takové naše pozdní jaro.
Peter Vágner
in reply to Matt Campbell • •@Matt Campbell Recently I went with btrfs raid 1 setup with two hard drives in my home computer instead of classic mdadm based raid array.
Features that caught my attention include:
I have created this on Arch linux with 6.11 kernel which is now upgraded to 6.12 kernel though. And I am running this kind of setup for a few weeks only with no incident. So perhaps you should wait for some more success stories before using it with your business data.
Edit: Oh, I've forgotten, I think raid 5 and raid 6 configurations are considered unstable. Mirroring should be fine for a few years already.
jon ⚝
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Geno
in reply to Matt Campbell • • •My current btrfs setup is a span across 3 hardware raids, so it’s more like lvm but I can add or remove as needed, and don’t have to worry about the raid5/6 issues.
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