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by packetlost 2032 days ago
For most use-cases, yes. But not if you plan on using raid5+ [0]

[0]: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas#Parity_RAID

My own experience indicates it's brittle to power failures and will corrupt in annoying ways in the event of a power failure (or hard reboot) as of ~1 year ago.

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Year isnt as useful as kernel version.
I was running whatever Arch's Linux kernel was at the time. 5.4 I believe? Arch is pretty much bleeding edge, so year is relevant.
Yup, in Arch even month, week and day is relevant.