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by ElliotH 4794 days ago
I use it full time on my Desktop and my Laptop. It glitches fairly often but nothing unrecoverable. You'll mostly run into issues if you run out of space. Also there's some weird side effects with improper shut-down that you should note. Btrfs tends to leave some stuff in my logs too, but nothing that actually lost data, normally I see the error after a brief lockup in the system.
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On that note about running out of space, an interesting thing you have to keep in mind with btrfs is that, as a snapshotting filesystem you can't simply unlink files to free up space. They're still present and taking up space in a previous snapshot.

There's ways to free up space for real but you have to manually use some tools to do it from what I understand.

> glitches

Panic? OOPS?

Mainly oops left in my logs, one or two panics on shutdown. Once a panic when I was doing something silly with my uni research project.

Pity I can't report these really, tainted (AMD) kernel.