I tried btrfs on three different occasions. Three times it managed to corrupt itself. I'll admit I was too enthousiastic the first time, trying it less than a year after it appeared in major distros. But the latter two are unforgiveable (I had to reinstall my mom's laptop).
I've been using ZFS for my NAS-like thing since then. It's been rock solid ().
(): I know about the block cloning bug, and the encryption bug. Luckily I avoided those (I don't tend to enable new features like block cloning, and I didn't have an encrypted dataset at the time). Still, all in all it's been really good in comparison to btrfs.
I've been using btrfs as the primary FS for my laptop for nearly twenty years, and for my desktop and multipurpose box for as long as they've existed (~eight and ~three years, respectively). I haven't had troubles with the laptop FS in like fifteen years, and have never had troubles with the desktop or multipurpose box.
I also used btrfs as the production FS for the volume management in our CI at $DAYJOB, as it was way faster than overlayfs. No problems there, either.
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I tried btrfs on three different occasions. Three times it managed to corrupt itself. I'll admit I was too enthousiastic the first time, trying it less than a year after it appeared in major distros. But the latter two are unforgiveable (I had to reinstall my mom's laptop).
I've been using ZFS for my NAS-like thing since then. It's been rock solid ().
(): I know about the block cloning bug, and the encryption bug. Luckily I avoided those (I don't tend to enable new features like block cloning, and I didn't have an encrypted dataset at the time). Still, all in all it's been really good in comparison to btrfs.
Additional anecdata:
I've been using btrfs as the primary FS for my laptop for nearly twenty years, and for my desktop and multipurpose box for as long as they've existed (~eight and ~three years, respectively). I haven't had troubles with the laptop FS in like fifteen years, and have never had troubles with the desktop or multipurpose box.
I also used btrfs as the production FS for the volume management in our CI at $DAYJOB, as it was way faster than overlayfs. No problems there, either.
Go figure, I guess.