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by jessant 2348 days ago
Seems pretty reliable these days. Are you commenting based upon personal experience? If so, when was it that you used btrfs?
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When it comes to file systems “pretty reliable” these days does not sound very good. Reliability had to have been a fundamental requirement for design of a file system. If not, it sounds like putting lipstick on a pig.

Redhat throwing towel on their support for development does not instill confidence either.

Nothing personally against Btrfs. Just an end user making a file system choice saying what I care about.

re Redhat deprecating btrfs:

> People are making a bigger deal of this than it is. Since I left Red Hat in 2012 there hasn't been another engineer to pick up the work, and it is _a lot_ of work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14909843

I have a laptop running opensuse, with root on btrfs. Twice I have had to reinstall because it managed to corrupt the file system.