[SEJeff]

Historically, the biggest bugs in btrfs were when you came close to filling up the filesystem. For the longest time, you'd get -ENOSPC (no space left) even when you had many Gb of space left due to really bad metadata and block level space usage.

[danudey]

I'm a huge Mac fanboy, but APFS really kicks me in the teeth sometimes. Aside from things like snapshots, clones, etc. not being accessible to users (well, not really), or being able to create subvolumes at specific mount points which forget those mount points next reboot, it had an extremely strange behavior (possibly relating to snapshots/CoW?) where once it was full, it stayed full forever until you rebooted.

Basically, any time a runaway process filled my disk, I just had to hard-reboot and hope I didn't have any unsaved work or state that I needed to preserve.

Really makes me hope that Apple is going to further extend APFS to not just be baby's first CoW volume-management filesystem.

[scottlamb]

> it had an extremely strange behavior (possibly relating to snapshots/CoW?) where once it was full, it stayed full forever until you rebooted.

Do you have Time Machine enabled? I think it uses snapshots, which explains why the filesystem stays full. I've hit this myself and was initially surprised to see rm not improving matters (possibly even making it worse) but it makes sense with snapshots. The working on reboot was a surprise. I'd put off fixing the machine for at least a week, and when I went to actually fix it, it was quite anticlimatic to just reboot and have it work. Maybe it checks for this condition on reboot and dumps Time Machine snapshots if so.

That was the less scary part of my macOS filesystem integrity worries. My full disk started when it was staging a full Time Machine backup after I got a dialog saying:

> Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on "my.nas.address". To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you.

...for the Nth time. I don't know for certain if the problem is with Apple's software or with my NAS's (Synology) but these backups are clearly not as reliable as one would hope...

[blattimwind]

Let's not forget about various performance issues which were exacerbated by "low free space" conditions (i.e. after you filled the volume beyond 80 % these started to pop up). A file system that will sometimes go down well into the fractional IOPS range is not very useful.

Some of these are fixed by now, though.

[SEJeff]

"the biggest bugs in btrfs were when you came close to filling up the filesystem" :)

I used to read every email on btrfs-devel for a year or so.

[machawinka]

This is my experinence too. Works great with lots of free space, as soon as space gets tight, performance deteriorates really fast. Nevertheless, for me it has been worthy.