BTRFS Stability Debate
The cluster focuses on debates about the current stability, reliability, and safety of the BTRFS filesystem, including personal anecdotes of data loss or successful long-term use, RAID issues, and comparisons to ZFS.
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How is btrfs nowadays? I have PTSD from it and stick to ZFS now.
BTRFS doesn't exactly had great history with fs bugs
I'm using btrfs and my system still works. :)
btrfs RAID is quite infamous for eating your data. Has it been fixed recently?
Btrfs is unstable too. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5460449
btrfs is not stable, at least not for me. it lost my data only a couple months ago. no power cut, no disk failure, data just gone.
Counter anecdotal view point, I've been using BTRFS over the last 4 years now on multiple drives and multiple systems. No data loss has occurred.
BTRFS is pretty stable nowadays.
Love using Btrfs; the is no better filesystem than it nowadays that it's reliability issues have been fixed.
In theory, yes. Unfortunately, every time my Btrfs filesystems have encountered a hardware glitch, it has happily trashed the filesystem beyond recovery (including both drives in a RAID1 mirror, one of which was perfectly OK). I use ZFS now, and while some features are compatable with Btrfs, the implementation quality, documentation, and feature completeness, and tool quality set it well above where Btrfs is at.