Josef Bacik, the mayor and active developer of the BTRFS file system, recently responded to criticism regarding the reliability of BTRFS expressed by Kent Overstreet, the author of Bcachefs. In a post on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Bacik debunked the criticism and defended the performance of BTRFS.
Bacik emphasized that BTRFS has proven to be reliable and efficient, saving companies significant amounts of money in infrastructure costs. He pointed out that many companies rely on BTRFS for their entire infrastructure, citing one company that has saved billions of dollars due to the reliability and functionality of the file system.
One of the key features that Bacik highlighted is the built-in compression and deduplication capabilities of BTRFS. These features allow companies to use fewer drives, resulting in cost savings and improved efficiency.