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What file system do you use and why?
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I have enough to think about without the damn file system getting complicated. So plain old ext4. It's stable, it works it's great.
I used btrfs once and it went really badly. When it gets corrupted it refuses to even let you mount read only. The documentation isn't good and you end up finding obscure wiki's with big warnings to only run these commands if you know what you're doing - but of course I don't, there's no where to learn it and the only people who do know are the developers who wrote the file system. No thanks! It holds your data captive, so you better have some spare time and some backups. Never again.
That's my issue with btrfs as well. If you can't recover a file system when something goes wrong it isn't production ready imo.
Totally agree, plus it's 14 years old, and at this point I think it's fair to just give up on it.