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It's "perpetually half-finished". Convoluted admin cli tooling, bad track record with reliability and loss of data, lots of stories on the internet. It perhaps got better, but RAID5/RAID6 for metadata (standard use of disks) still not oficially recommended and thus standard RAID5/RAID6 is not reliable. Also, look at some FS benchmarks - BTRFS is still much slower than EXT/XFS, and slower than ZFS.

About the only class of scenarios to use BTRFS instead of ZFS is if you want the features, do not need RAID5/6, require support by Linux distributor/kernel developers or for some other (hard to think of) reason you can't use ZFS.

I do use BTRFS on a single disk where I don't touch it with cli tools, and there it's fine.




Thanks, that makes sense. I should look more into it


No problem. For more, this looks like a good intro

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...




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