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I thought the only major issues with Btrfs were with RAID usage. I mean, some distros default to it out of the box, right?
by bantunes 3y ago
I thought the only major issues with Btrfs were with RAID usage. I mean, some distros default to it out of the box, right?
- capableweb 3y agoBoth openSUSE and Fedora defaults to BTRFS so not sure what parent is talking about, you won't have any data loss for the average/common use cases.
- sofixa 3y agoDepends on what you mean by "common/average use cases". Common for desktop use, so at most two disk parity? Yeah, that's probably fine. Common for server use, so something akin to RAID5/6? It's still recommended to stay away from it on BTRFS, which makes it a non-starter for any NAS or most other server uses.
- imiric 3y agoTrue, most issues are with RAID, but there are still many others listed here[1] that I wouldn't be comfortable with. Perhaps I'm being overly cautious after years of not experiencing issues with ext4+LVM+LUKS. BTRFS always gave the impression of being in a perpetual state of instability, but maybe I should take another look at it. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Btrfs#Status https://wiki.debian.org/Btrfs#Status