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>How stable is Btrfs these days? Remember reading years ago that it was bad about spontaneously corrupting itself for no apparent reason. On one hand, Fedora a
by curt15 4y ago
>How stable is Btrfs these days? Remember reading years ago that it was bad about spontaneously corrupting itself for no apparent reason.
On one hand, Fedora and SUSE default to Btrfs. On the other hand, data corruption bugs are still being unearthed [1]:
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169947 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169947.
- Arnavion 4y agoFWIW I've been using btrfs for the root partition for a decade without any (observed) corruption problems. This is across multiple installs of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on laptops and PCs, HDDs and SSDs and most recently an SD card. Back in the day it needed manual intervention to rebalance but that is automated now. Also, OpenSUSE's update program automatically takes pre- and post- snapshots, and these snapshots have saved me a lot of headache from botched upgrades.
- solarkraft 4y agoSame here. Never had to do anything, with the notable exception of it being somewhat annoying to recover when the disk is full (which is why I've started to keep subvolumes that I can quickly delete). But I'm not running a RAID, which I believe is where almost all of the data corruption has happened.
- dontlaugh 4y agoI’ve settled on unraid with btrfs partly for that reason.
- prmoustache 4y agoI've had corruption on a btrfs root partition somewhere between last year and only this year. It was in files I wasn't really using anymore (some ssh key files on vps that weren't online anymore) so I have no idea when it really occured.