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I would never attempt to use btrfs again in any environment. But if it is used, I hope the person has extremely strong backup policies in place for when it eventually crashes.



I've used it for the past 4 years as my primary development machine. Never once had an issue. However, I used Arch Linux, which always has newer kernels. I know there have been some bugs on other distros which run older kernels.


I ran it for quite a while, 4 terabytes lost specifically due to btrfs, I will never trust it again.

I've heard several admins flat out scoff at the idea of using it.

Make sure you have backups with a reliable fs.




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