Comment by theamk
8 hours ago
Sure, I can believe this. Does not change the fact that some people encounter compete data loss with it.
Sadly, there are people (and distributions) which recommend btrfs for general-purpose root filesystem, even for the cases where reliability matters much more than performance. I think that part is a mistake,
I would recommend btrfs as general purpose root filesystem. Any FS will have people encountering data loss. I can believe btrfs has N times higher chance of data loss because its packed with features and need to maintain various complicated indexes which are easier to corrupt, but I also believe that one should be ready that his disk will fail any minute regardless of FS, and do backup/replication accordingly.