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i had many friends who were very vocal about btrfs. most of them lost their data at one point, with btrfs, due to data corruption.
by znpy 4y ago
i had many friends who were very vocal about btrfs. most of them lost their data at one point, with btrfs, due to data corruption.
- stametseater 4y agoI've only heard of BTRFS corrupting data in RAID configurations, but for a single disk laptop setup it seems perfect to me. Automatic snapshotting has already saved my ass several times.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoIf we're trading anecdotes, I managed to lose 2 root filesystems to BTRFS, on a laptop with a single drive, on OpenSUSE (which has been using BTRFS by default for ages, i.e. the one place I expected it to be the most stable). I think it was some problem triggered by filling the filesystem, because that system had too small of a root FS and snapshots piled up too fast, but I don't know for sure what happened, only that I couldn't find a way to recover it short of wiping root and reinstalling (thankfully, I had a separate home so that was actually okay). And to answer the obvious question, I don't know that it wasn't a hardware problem, but the home FS on the same machine, also on BTRFS, never gave me any problems, and honestly if the filesystem's reaction to a hardware error is to hose the whole filesystem that's still a hard pass from me.