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It depends on how you use it, I tried it a couple of years ago and ran into a couple of issues with the tooling around it. I used it on a fresh install of Open
by dx87 8y ago
It depends on how you use it, I tried it a couple of years ago and ran into a couple of issues with the tooling around it. I used it on a fresh install of OpenSuse and ran into issues a little while later because the distro was saving btrfs snapshots every day, and they eventually filled up my small SSD and prevented the system from being able to boot because it didn't have enough free space to create some small temporary files it needed. You'll also need to get used to using btrfs tools certain tasks, because tools like df and du don't understand how much space btrfs is actually using so you get innacurate results. Things may have changed in the past couple of years, but having to tune different paramaters and learn new commands wasn't really worth the effort because I wasn't using most of the features on a standard Linux desktop install.
- leshow 8y agoI wouldn't be using any of the advanced features. I just want a filesystem. The automatic compression stuff seemed attractive, but if there's anything else I have to do besides just format a drive differently it's not worth it for me. Thanks for sharing your experience.