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Because it still doesn't have the stability and maturity of ZFS (which has seen over a decade of production use)

• LeoPanthera 11y ago
  OpenSUSE is using it for root, so I assume they think it is stable enough. (Interestingly, they use XFS for /home)
  • DominoTree 11y ago
    Yeah, but is anybody using OpenSUSE? :P Edit: Wow, I just checked DistroWatch and they've been #4 for some time now...
    • snuxoll 11y ago
      There's a lot of interest in OpenSUSE tumbleweed from what I've gathered.
    • j_koreth 11y ago
      There are more continents using linux than America ;)
    • lmm 11y ago
      Most of Europe. At times it feels like there are almost parallel OSS ecosystems on the two sides of the Atlantic.
  • ewzimm 11y ago
    I'm using openSUSE Leap with a default partition scheme, and it's btrfs all the way down to home.
  • mitchty 11y ago
    Oh they think it, but by my experience BTRFS is crap. This year alone, its managed to "fully compress" open files to 0 bytes about 2-3 times. Why anyone uses it for / or at all right now is beyond me. I think Novell is nuts here.
  • ryao 11y ago
    The loss of data stored on the rootfs is more of an inconvenience (downtime) than something serious (permanent data loss). Consequently, the data stored elsewhere (e.g. /home) is far more important. If SUSE thought btrfs was stable enough, they would use btrfs for /home.
    • d_b 11y ago
      Suse does use Btrfs for /home..
      • ryao 11y ago
        The last that I checked, SUSE used XFS for /home and others are saying the same here. Given that you seem to have registered solely for the purpose of posting replies to me, would you care to say who you are in a manner that can be verified and provide citations, or do you just intend to troll?