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I've experienced corruption and data loss with Btrfs each of the times I've tried using it, too, after only about a week of use at most. Thankfully, all of tho
by VancouverMan 3y ago
I've experienced corruption and data loss with Btrfs each of the times I've tried using it, too, after only about a week of use at most.
Thankfully, all of those incidents were with some non-critical, throw-away VMs where the data loss wasn't really an issue.
I've also used ext4 under the same circumstances for years, and I can't think of a single time that I've lost data, nor have I experienced corruption that fsck couldn't easily deal with.
I, too, would have to go back to the 1990s to think of a filesystem I used that was that unreliable.
After what I experienced, I don't trust Btrfs at all, and I have no plans to ever use it again.
- lproven 3y agoI am glad to hear it's not just me! I worked at SUSE for 4Y and used it every day. The company is in deep denial about its problems, or that there are any problems, and when I pointed at ZFS as a more mature tool, this was actually mocked.