On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 4:28 PM Dev Guy via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

I don't like btrfs, this seems to be the default fs for the boot
partition with openSUSE Tumbleweed and I think on 2 occasions it got
messed up so bad that I stop using it.

Anything is better than btrfs, even fat32 which I ended up using for the
boot partition! Been running solid with no issues upgrade after rolling
upgrades.

People love talking smack about btrfs. Here's some real insight from Josef Bacik though at https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/03fbbb9a-7e74-fc49-c663-32722d6f75a2@toxicpanda.com/ and https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/cf5b4944-74c4-b4a4-0d65-71d9821a4a71@toxicpanda.com/. Read through the chain. For those who don't know him, Josef is a core btrfs developer. I also quite like Josef personally, he is a good developer, great to work with and is personally invested in helping folks out.

This is a solid fs, there are times when I see the reactions from users and I really wonder why I do open source work anyway. I have lost data on all sorts of filesystems, and I have also been at the end of stupid mistakes made. Almost everything is recoverable if you stop, and ask for help and keep your ego out of it.

Dhaval