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Ars Technica has acknowledged that stability has been achieved for single-disk filesystems. I've had no complaints, and the Fedora community has not reported ma
by chasil 4y ago
Ars Technica has acknowledged that stability has been achieved for single-disk filesystems. I've had no complaints, and the Fedora community has not reported major problems that I have heard.
"So, we'll repeat this once more: as a single-disk filesystem, btrfs has been stable and for the most part performant for years."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoI dunno, I understand that the worst problems are in RAID, but it's only been a few years (<5y) since I lost 2 root filesystems to BTRFS on a laptop with just the one disk. I'm going to stay skeptical for a bit longer, although Fedora adopting it as a default does give me some hope that it'll at least get wider testing now.
- dilyevsky 4y agoI think fedora uses xfs by default not btrfs (at least in coreos version of f35)
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agohttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Btrfs#Default_filesystem,_on_the_desktop https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Btrfs#Default_filesystem,_on_... says they switched to BTRFS by default for the desktop edition with F33
- viraptor 4y agoThey list the feature status here https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status It's not that raid has problems. Just one of the modes (raid5) is clearly documented as "unstable, don't use that".
- kzrdude 4y agoIt needs to be more than just avoiding tripping over itself, a real-world filesystem also needs to gracefully handle unclean poweroffs and such (and that's the kind of reliability I hope they will achieve..)