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On 6/29/20 6:13 PM, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 4:28
PM Dev Guy via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org"
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I don't like btrfs, this
seems to be the default fs for the boot <br>
partition with openSUSE Tumbleweed and I think on 2
occasions it got <br>
messed up so bad that I stop using it.<br>
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Anything is better than btrfs, even fat32 which I ended up
using for the <br>
boot partition! Been running solid with no issues upgrade
after rolling <br>
upgrades.<br>
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<div>People love talking smack about btrfs. Here's some real
insight from Josef Bacik though at <a
href="https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/03fbbb9a-7e74-fc49-c663-32722d6f75a2@toxicpanda.com/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/03fbbb9a-7e74-fc49-c663-32722d6f75a2@toxicpanda.com/</a>
and <a
href="https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/cf5b4944-74c4-b4a4-0d65-71d9821a4a71@toxicpanda.com/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/cf5b4944-74c4-b4a4-0d65-71d9821a4a71@toxicpanda.com/</a>.
Read through the chain. For those who don't know him, Josef
is a core btrfs developer. I also quite like Josef
personally, he is a good developer, great to work with and
is personally invested in helping folks out.</div>
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<div>This is a solid fs, there are times when I see the
reactions from users and I really wonder why I do open
source work anyway. I have lost data on all sorts of
filesystems, and I have also been at the end of stupid
mistakes made. Almost everything is recoverable if you stop,
and ask for help and keep your ego out of it.</div>
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I have used a number of file systems over the years.<br>
from ext in the pre-1.0 kernels through Reiser and XFS.<br>
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And I have had problems of one form or another in all of them but
none managed to blow away all the data that was less than 3 months
old after a power failure.<br>
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fortunately the several hundred files were not critical.<br>
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Before this my take on the various BTRFS complaints were that people
were likely using corner case features.<br>
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But having my data scrubbed without a hardware failure is just down
right confidence destroying.<br>
If I cannot replace the functionality of ext without having data
corrupted then I am not going to use any of the other wonderful
features of BTRFS.<br>
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Not sure how you would define it but my take is that bulk data loss
with no indication of errors is the opposite of solid.<br>
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just my $0.02<br>
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