[eptcyka]

I've had 3 catastrophic BTRFS failures. In two cases, the root filesystem just ran out of space and there was no way to repair the partition. Last time, the partition was just rendered unmountable after a reboot. All data was lost.No such thing has ever happened with ZFS for me.

[tux1968]

A recent Fedora install here came with a new default of BTRFS use rather than ext4. So i'm curious about your experience, were any of those catastrophic failures recent? Do you know of any patches entering the kernel that purport to fix the issues you experienced?

[eptcyka]

Last one was two years ago. I was told that it was a hardware issue. Same SSD is still going strong with ext4 now.

[Dylan16807]

I've had some annoying failures too. But I wasn't listing pros and cons, I was explaining that there are some very notable features that ZFS lacks.

[eptcyka]

That's fair. However, when listing notable features for the sake of comparing software, I think it's important to also list other characteristics of a given piece of software. If we were to compare software by feature sets alone, one might argue that Windows has the most features, so Windows must be best OS.