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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Apr-2018 11:25:19 EDT Christine Lemmer-Webber

   btrfs FAQ: "Is btrfs stable? Maybe." https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Is_btrfs_stable.3F

   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 23-Apr-2018 03:31:13 EDT clacke

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      Yeah, I'd push that toward "maybe not". I try #btrfs every couple of years and it always bites me within months. The worst was when it silently zeroed out the contents of my family albums when it was getting low on disk space.
      
      But as I've said before:
      
      > On the positive side, that's what guided me into using git-annex for All The Things. :-D
      
      https://social.heldscal.la/notice/6905600
      1. Vítor De Araújo (vbuaraujo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Apr-2018 06:58:52 EDT Vítor De Araújo

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         @clacke @cwebber Once upon a time I decided to use btrfs for / so I could make system snapshots (/home was still ext4). One day I hibernated the system and booted it up from scratch rather than de-hibernating due to some mistake. That corrupted the filesystem and I wasn't able to recover it. Granted, that was some two years ago and it may have become more robust by now, but I haven't felt like trying it again since then.