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I've been using BTRFS for at least 5 years on my primary workstation and various other machines and have had no issues whatsoever. Being able to format the root
by gh02t 8y ago
I've been using BTRFS for at least 5 years on my primary workstation and various other machines and have had no issues whatsoever. Being able to format the root of a drive with BTRFS and then work with subvolumes instead of partitions and manipulate them on the fly is wonderful, as are filesystem snapshots. No more planning partition layouts and/or dealing with LVM.
I would (and do) use ZFS on a server because it's rock solid and powerful, but I prefer BTRFS on desktops / laptops because it's more flexible and lower maintenance. The only major downside for me is that it pretty much only works on Linux.
- DelightOne 8y agoDo you use raid with BTRFS?
- gh02t 8y agoI have. I didn't have any trouble out of it.
- ofrzeta 8y agoThere's also WinBtrfs https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs
- Leace 8y agoJudging by the issues on WinBtrfs it doesn't work well (or at all).
- gh02t 8y agoOh, I didn't know that existed. I'm not sure if I'd trust it, but glad to know it exists. It's not really a big issue for me, though, as I have a home NAS. Really more important to me than Windows support is support on BSD (esp. FreeBSD) as I use that on my NAS.