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Btrfs is actively developed, and stable for the cases indicated in https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status

• Fnoord 7y ago
  Seems actively developed indeed: [1]. The current contributors are Facebook, Fujitsu, SUSE, and Oracle. Its XFS which never had a future because it lacks features which modern filesystems have. Adding these features would be akin to making a new filesystem (which could contain the acronym XFS). The only real (integrity) issue BTRFS currently has is write hole in RAID5/6. Its a long standing issue... [1] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Contributors https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Contributors
  • viraptor 7y ago
    It's not true that this is the only issue unfortunately. As much as I want btrfs to succeed, I've seen it disappear completely from my drives and it does have quite a few crashing bugs: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=btrfs https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_s... I want it to be stable and safe already, but realistically, we still need to wait.
• r1ch 7y ago
  After using btrfs a couple of times and I don't think it's a good idea to call it stable yet. I expect a stable filesystem to perform well and work without admin intervention, both of which btrfs has let me down on.