Post B2ecG1TmVdIjT4gAcK by sampler@freebeerextremist.com
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 (DIR) Post #B2ebkyqwDz1ULRhyxE by VD15@pl.valkyrie.world
       2026-01-25T16:37:51.087815Z
       
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       Literally never used BTRFS in my life, but every single time I hear it mentioned on the TL, it's about how there's some bug that's bricked someone's entire file system.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ebqffST2aQa43IZM by mirq@tsogol.tsiran.org
       2026-01-25T16:40:21.036406Z
       
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       @VD15 btrfs had saved my ass a few times when I was still very green and using Tumbleweed but since then... I haven't actually needed snapshots and it hasn't really benefited my arch install. But it HAS hurt me lol:1. Issue with shutdowns, I got impatient, whoops there goes the journal. Won't boot! Turned out to be easily fixable but actually diagnosing and fixing was hard (for me)2. I wanted to boot into snapshots which meant using grub. Ew, grub
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ecG1TmVdIjT4gAcK by sampler@freebeerextremist.com
       2026-01-25T16:45:40.225165Z
       
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       @mirq @VD15 In this house we still use LILO.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ecZMkDfbsIvGajCa by mirq@tsogol.tsiran.org
       2026-01-25T16:45:49.911188Z
       
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       @sampler @VD15 & stitch?
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ecksevLvsx5bba4m by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
       2026-01-25T16:47:43.702817Z
       
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       @mirq @VD15 fun, i got into using btrfs because of the snapshots, it has been about 8 years now using btrfs for the / partition (i always put /boot in a separate ext2 partition), 7 years for /home and 6 years for my extra storage partition, and i have not used snapshots more than one time... even forgot how to use the snapshots altogether... my experience has been smooth sailing, then again i am a grug retard idiot as the way i've been using btrfs is just like i was using ext4 but with built in zstd compression...
       
 (DIR) Post #B2eckvTKtTOloXCrvk by mischievoustomato@tsundere.love
       2026-01-25T16:48:47.533518Z
       
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       @mirq @VD15 > 1. Issue with shutdowns, I got impatient, whoops there goes the journal. Won't boot! Turned out to be easily fixable but actually diagnosing and fixing was hard (for me)It's crazy how the experiences for people can be so different. Anyway, I have some personal memory tweaks for Linux that I think as a side effect make it easier to avoid corrupted data on forceful shutdowns.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ed3Cgdd4FQPt8zSq by hazlin@shortstacksran.ch
       2026-01-25T16:49:59.337857Z
       
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       @EdBoatConnoisseur @VD15 @mirq I briefly tried btrfs, but it was just, so much slower than ext4
       
 (DIR) Post #B2edBhFDtqS7VTN2Om by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
       2026-01-25T16:55:05.994029Z
       
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       @hazlin @VD15 @mirq i've never noticed any speed difference, then again i use "noatime,compress=zstd:10" as mount options for all my btrfs mounts so the combination of no access time + fetching the compressed data could probably be compensating as in theory less data is being fetched from disk and the speed of memory inflation of the data is only capped by the cpu and ram speed
       
 (DIR) Post #B2edNuAneni74y7h6O by hazlin@shortstacksran.ch
       2026-01-25T16:56:05.203288Z
       
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       @EdBoatConnoisseur @VD15 @mirq I only use default settings, but I remember coming to the conclusion that file transforms were taking about 5x as long.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2eeRfbLsOQozwty1A by EdBoatConnoisseur@poa.st
       2026-01-25T17:01:28.021115Z
       
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       @hazlin @VD15 @mirq yeh, default settings are not good for performance, there is a reason steam uses "noatime" in the fstab for steam os and the steam deck, it has very real performance impact.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2eeRgeDzCK8F9Fm8O by hazlin@shortstacksran.ch
       2026-01-25T17:09:41.598572Z
       
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       @EdBoatConnoisseur @VD15 @mirq dare I ask, what is atime?
       
 (DIR) Post #B2eemtAEe6gX8wKtSS by xyfdi@gameliberty.club
       2026-01-25T20:42:42Z
       
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       @VD15 I considered touching btrfs after a reinstall for my fileserver with 3 disks in soft-raid 5. Turns out btrfs has an issue with parity, so it was back to zfs.I was tired/drunk AF when I planned and did the reinstall from Deb10 to Arch. Turns out I could just `zpool import -f data` the already existing zpools. Saves me days and days of restores from remote backups.