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People swear btrfs is "safe" now, but I've personally been bitten by data corruption more than once, so I stay away from it now.

I installed Fedora on BTRFS using their installer and I lost that partition entirely. Couldn't wrestle it back to life to even copy stuff off it.

I think what happened was that the machine ran out of battery in suspend, but an unclean shutdown shouldn't cause such a deep corruption.

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