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by feld 3160 days ago
Other filesystems will lose your data or write corrupted data
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rbanffy 3160 days ago
APFS and BtrFS at least won't.
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ThatPlayer 3160 days ago
As long as you don't use Btrfs's RAID 5/6 features. I happened to be more lucky and my filesystem only locked up read-only on me, and I had to transfer everything off.
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feld 3160 days ago
APFS doesn't checksum the data. You've been deceived.

BTRFS still cannot be trusted for various reasons. It was deprecated as of RHEL 7.4

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vetinari 3160 days ago
Being deprecated in RHEL means nothing; Red Hat didn't have any btrfs people anyway. They have all the xfs people, so that's what they focus on.
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tavert 3160 days ago
What reasons? openSUSE is defaulting to btrfs. snapper is really sweet.
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cpuguy83 3160 days ago
Because RHEL kernels are very old and the maintenance burden of backporting btrfs changes is too great (and fragile).
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tavert 3160 days ago
That sounds like a problem with RHEL, not a problem with btrfs
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rbanffy 3159 days ago
For the end user it's a problem with the ecosystem. Red Hat needs to keep the kernel patched for a very long time and some pieces move way too fast.
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cpuguy83 3159 days ago
Right, it's not a btrfs problem other than btrfs is moving too quickly and RHEL's kernel stands still (by design).
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