Comment # 21 on bug 967152 from Richard Brown

(In reply to ill lume from comment #20)
> "In other words most of "bugs" you report are bogus,"
> 
> Maybe my definition of "bug" is faulty then. Maybe you can help me
> understand what a bug is? 
> Like snapper using up 15GB of your 30GB root partition. Is that not a bug
> then?

Snapper is designed to (by default) take snapshots of your btrfs root
filesystem. Our standard btrfs config is configured in such a way that
subvolumes prevent the snapshotting of folders like /home, and certain
/var/lib/* folders where databases and such are kept in

Outside of those subvolumes, everything on that root partition is going to be
snapshotted

If you have 15GB of change on your 30GB root partition in a short period of
time, it is not a bug if snapper therefore fills up that space

Your reports do not assert, nor suggest, that the the behaviour you are
reporting is anything less than the expected behaviour of snapper, and
therefore, yes, it is not a bug.

A bug would be something like 'I changed nothing on the system, did nothing in
the root filesystem, installed no packages, but still btrfs filled up my disk
with snapshots'

The recommended root partition size for an openSUSE btrfs root filesystem is
*at least* 40GB. This has proven to be a sane default for the vast majority of
the openSUSE userbase. Changes to that default have been made, when bug
reporters have been able to demonstrably explain how and why the default
settings needed to be changed. But your bug reports are woefully lacking in
detailed information to be helpful to any such considerations.

If you're an exceptionally heavy user, making lots of changes to your packages,
then you either need more, or you need to adjust your snapper configuration
accordingly to clean up based on your environment. That is your responsibility
as the administrator of the system, but again, to be absolutely clear, that
doesn't mean it's a bug.