• zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      I’ve had some wild issues that I can’t even begin to explain with btrfs. I landed on using xfs for / partition and btrfs on /home

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          3 years ago

          tbh I’m pretty sure the issue I ran into was user error anyways, but once I finally figured out what I was doing, I decided to land on xfs for root and btrfs for home for the following reasons.

          1. xfs is supposedly more performant and common in data centers
          2. having a separate partition mounted at /home allows for os reinstalls or even distro swaps while retaining my home directory contents (assuming my user is the same)
          3. most of the contents I want backed up are held in /home. I don’t want snapshots of my entire system laying around
          4. I like being extra
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          3 years ago

          I’m sure a lot of them existed 10 years ago but today it is a really good FS. I’m using btrfs on my server and laptop for a few years and had 0 issues. Today’s opinions on largly btrfs base on bugs and FUD from the past which is a shame.

          Except RAID5 and 6. Don’t use them with btrfs :)