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G'day All,
Just curious about people's opinions on using the btrfs filesystem vs ext4.
I've been using btrfs for new installs of different distro's for about a year now, so far mostly without any hassles.
Apparently it's to be the way of the future, eventually.
What are your thoughts on using or not using it?
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06-29-2018, 05:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-29-2018, 05:22 AM by JmaCWQ.)
Hello People,
A little more info on this subject...
Using ext4 again now, 2 main reasons for the swap back from btrfs, the first is the date accessed shown in Thunar doesn't work on btrfs, only shows the modified date in the date accessed column which never changes unless a file is modified.
With ext4 the date accessed display works as expected.
2nd is I usually end up with a lot of crap to sort through several times a year, backups of backups made in a hurry etc. etc. which wastes a lot of storage space.
To keep this somewhat under control I use Fslint to find and remove duplicates, with btrfs Fslint finds the duplicates ok but it won't delete them.
On ext4 it finds and deletes the duplicates as it should.
Apart from those 2 things I don't think I've noticed any other differences for general usage between the 2 filesystems.
EDIT: I'm not using LL 1.0 either despite what it says on my profile.
I'm actually using MX but trying to leave that line blank it auto puts LL 4.0 64-bit in when saved 8)
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Don't know if either of you are using massive multi-disk databases but if you're not butter fuss doesn't really have any advantages. Red Hat Enterprise has dropped support and Debian may too in a year or two depending largely on leftover Jessie deployments. Too many bugs, and Mozilla is one of the more annoying ones. Development is continuing but it does make one wonder.
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No massive databases for me, I have enough troubles keeping track of several 2TB storage devices, hence the need for a fully working Fslint & accurate file access info.
Didn't realise there were so many bugs with btrfs until now, though never looked into that side of it before either.
The original write-up I saw on it a couple of years ago before I started using it made it sound as if it was the future and the end of all filesystem problems.
Perhaps the fact that any system I used it on skipped the filesystem check at startup because btrfs was detected was a true indication of things to come...
