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by DCKing 3038 days ago
Is there really any reason to believe that Btrfs has more risk of data loss than XFS or ZFS, at least on simple single or mirrored drives?

Honest question - my home box runs a Btrfs mirror on openSUSE.

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The two most obvious reasons to assume so are that btrfs is in comparison relatively new and quite complex. Not to say zfs isn't complex, but I'd rather trust zfs just because of its age.

That being said, unless I really need those specific features, I go for ext4 whenever possible, as it has to be the most battle tested one, at least when it comes to *nix. It also seems that fsck.ext4 has almost magical powers sometimes, but that shouldn't stop you from making backups obviously.

Related: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/...