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My impression of btrfs is that it's very useful and stable if you stay away from the sharp edges. Until you run into some random scenario that leads you to an u

My impression of btrfs is that it's very useful and stable if you stay away from the sharp edges. Until you run into some random scenario that leads you to an unrecoverable file system. But it has been that way for now 14 years. Sure, there are far fewer sharp edges now than there were back then. For a host you can just reimage it's fine, for a well-tested fairly restricted system it's fine. I stay far away from it for personal computers and my home-built NAS, because just about any other fs seems to be more stable.

bayindirh 3y ago
The thing is, none of the systems I have the luxury to run a filesystem which can randomly explode any time because I pressed a button developers didn't account for, yet. I have bitten by ReiserFS' superblock corruption once, and that time I had plenty of time to rebuild my system leisurely. My current life doesn't allow for that. I need to be able to depend on my systems. Again, I believe BTRFS will be an excellent filesystem in the long run. It's not ready yet for "format, mount and forget" from my perspective. Only I'm against is, "it runs on my machine, so yours' is a skill issue" take, which is harmful on many levels.