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Wow my favorite FS is still being developed. Nice

Fedora people would say that BTRFS is better because it allows maintenance that EXT4 doesnt even have :)

I really like the idea of BTRFS and what it can do. For my recent system, build in end of 2023 (not a year ago) I really thought about and compared the systems, but end up using EXT4. Here some thoughts I had:

I want to use BTRFS as my main system FS, but I wasn’t sure which alternative FS to use (there are other contenders too), if I need the extra functionality, if its 100% stable for me on a non Fedora system and I also did not want to spent the time learning and experimenting with it, yet. But I will. And if other distributions I install or boot into would work well with BTRFS, if they are not on the newest Kernel yet.

If you’re interested I have a fairly thorough “I use this” post on my website (last time I updated it was in early 2023) about btrfs.

Sure! I’m interested into the “current” state or real world experience of it. Wouldn’t mind if you post it here. Although I am not sure how relevant it is 1 year later, because the filesystem is quite under development.

Here you go: …virtadpt.net/…/experimenting-with-btrfs-in-produ…

That its under development means that it’s being maintained. EXT4 is still being developed, so is xfs. And the other ones that are fairly popular, for that matter.

Thanks. But it’s important to note your experience report is based on the experience of 2019 and the slight edits aren’t changing that. That its being developed is not the same as under maintenance. EXT4 is fully developed and there are only optimizations in performance expected, if anything, while BTRFS still needs active development to improve compatibility and some other features.

I’m still curious to how to work with it and such a report is still welcome. I’ll give it a read.

@thingsiplay @drwho , as soon as RAID5/6 is fully ready (and I am aware it looks like it'll never be), I'll be switching over to it.

What’s your use case? Do you need the storage capacity and parity of RAID-5 or -6? The write performance?

That’s entirely fair.