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btrfs appreciation post
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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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Yeah BTRFS is way more reliable than Ext4. A simple power failure or other hardware fuckup with Ext4 and you can be sure all your data is gone, with BTRFS your data will survive a lot of shit.
That's ridiculously exaggerated and you know it.
Yes it is :) but comparatively I've never lost a volume / disk to BTRFS in years of the same scenarios.
My experience says otherwise.
Ext4 is rock solid and will survive power loss without a problem.
I love btrfs for the compression and snapshot capabilities, but it still has a long way to go to reach ext4 maturity.
That's not a shot at btrfs, it's just that filesystem maturity and reliability take time.
I can't share your enthusiasm about Ext4's safety. I've had multiple disks lost to simple power failures at home and more complex hardware failures at datacenters. At the time I migrated to XFS - which also always performed better than Ext4 when things failed - and then moved to BTRFS when become mostly stable.
I've been using Ext4 for over 150 years now and I never had any issues with it. I did not only survive multiple power failures but also house fire, couple direct hits with EMP and a zombie apocalypse.
I had the exact opposite experience. A power loss destroyed my btrfs boot drive, it couldn't be mounted anymore