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Anecdotal, but I use btrfs on my laptop since august 2014, had a good number of hard power off not related to btrfs and the filesystem never failed me once. I
by riquito 11y ago
Anecdotal, but I use btrfs on my laptop since august 2014, had a good number of hard power off not related to btrfs and the filesystem never failed me once.
I had some problem with space though using intensively docker: in some situations btrfs thought that the free space was finished and I had to manually rebuild the metadata.
- vidarh 11y agoThe Docker-on-Btrfs problems are/were severe enough that CoreOS now defaults to overlayfs on Ext4. I have a bunch of EC2 servers on CoreOS, and we ended up wiping Docker partitions regularly until that switch...
- pja 11y agoIIRC docker (or any other virtual machine filesystem) in a single image file and hashing filesystems mix really, really badly. Docker could use BTRFS / ZFS snapshots instead of using whole filesystem image files though, so this ought to get better.