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Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.

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[–] Glarrf@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My anecdotal experience with btrfs is that it constantly broke in raid 1, no problems with any other filesystems on the exact same hardware and setup. YMMV

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How long ago was that? Modern btrfs is pretty stable.

[–] Glarrf@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Last year, unraid, identical SSDs. I changed so many sata and power cables, so many settings.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love it for single drives, but for RAID, ZFS all the way.

[–] conrad82@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ZFS also supports single drives, is there a reason to use btrfs instead?

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

IIRC it works with TimeShift, aka time machine for Linux.