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What are the pros and cons of btrfs?
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Can't make a claim for Fedora, but I know on OpenSUSE the maintenance,Scrub etc is already built In as cron/scripts. There's no need to run additional scripts.
I was hoping the distros would just do the scrub/balance work for you - makes it no effort then! Good to know OpenSUSE does it for ya. Searching it looks like Fedora doesn’t have anything built in sadly, but the posts are +1 yr old so maaaybe they’ve done something.
openSuSE expects you to be on btrfs + xfs for root and home, so it's quite well integrated, and if you learn the admin software you don't even need to memorise any cli
openSUSE is now one big btrfs partition. They dropped the separate xfs for the home partition maybe two years ago or so. It makes it less likely to run into a situation where the snapshots fill up the root partition (which is really ugly to recover from, because users will try to uninstall packages, which doesn't help, since the files are still contained in a previous snapshot)...