Comment by riku_iki

7 months ago

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.

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sandreas  7 months ago

While I did that and lost near to nothing, I still think that this should not be the default approach of developing a filesystem... it should be ready to restore as much as possible in case of hardware failure or data corruption.

  • riku_iki  7 months ago

    there is standard approach: you setup raid, and FS will restore as much as possible and likely everything. Adding extra complexity to cover some edge cases maybe is too overkill.