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Other filesystems will lose your data or write corrupted data

• rbanffy 9y ago
  APFS and BtrFS at least won't.
  • feld 9y ago
    APFS doesn't checksum the data. You've been deceived. BTRFS still cannot be trusted for various reasons. It was deprecated as of RHEL 7.4
    • tavert 9y ago
      What reasons? openSUSE is defaulting to btrfs. snapper is really sweet.
      • cpuguy83 9y ago
        Because RHEL kernels are very old and the maintenance burden of backporting btrfs changes is too great (and fragile).
        • tavert 9y ago
          That sounds like a problem with RHEL, not a problem with btrfs
          • rbanffy 9y ago
            For the end user it's a problem with the ecosystem. Red Hat needs to keep the kernel patched for a very long time and some pieces move way too fast.
          • cpuguy83 9y ago
            Right, it's not a btrfs problem other than btrfs is moving too quickly and RHEL's kernel stands still (by design).
    • vetinari 9y ago
      Being deprecated in RHEL means nothing; Red Hat didn't have any btrfs people anyway. They have all the xfs people, so that's what they focus on.
  • ThatPlayer 9y ago
    As long as you don't use Btrfs's RAID 5/6 features. I happened to be more lucky and my filesystem only locked up read-only on me, and I had to transfer everything off.