possiblylinux127,

Btrfs has come a long way in the last few years. I have been using it for a little over 5 years and its rock solid. It now powers all my bare metal machines and I use Raid 1 on my servers.

There was one time I had a disk unexpectedly go bad (it started returning bad data on read) which lead to the system going read only. It took me about 5min to swap disks and it was fine. Needless to say I was impressed that no data was lost.

Btrfs will normally won’t get corrupted unless you have a hardware issue. It uses cow so writes can never be half competed. If you do manage to get corruption you can use btrfs check.

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