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Is it worth switching to BTRFS for the average user?
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Copy on write is likely to introduce significant performance decreases in cases where large or medium size files have a couple bytes changed. It’s usually recommended to turn CoW off on those files; I found it to be more hassle than it’s worth for a root filesystem. It is still a reasonable file system for file storage that looks more like archival - files land there and seldomly or never change. If you don’t have a specific need in mind though, I wouldn’t bother - in my opinion, it’s not great as a general purpose filesystem.
Why would OpenSuse/Fedora choose it as their default filesystem if it was as bad you describe?
Thanks for the advice!
How do you define medium or large files? What examples of these exist on root?