On 2016-03-15 16:58, sdm wrote:
I've been using Btrfs w/o ever even 1 issue on servers and desktops, including ones that have experienced the power being cut more than once. Never one problem, ever. Hardware problems such as 3 cent motherboard "China RAID/Fake RAID" controllers could be to blame in certain circumstances which in those cases aren't the actual filesystem. Point is I suspect a lot of people posting for problems and blaming openSUSE or the FS (which in many cases it also is the fault of buggy software) is actually because their hardware is complete shit, old, whatever...E-waste.
I run a test on btrfs, some time ago, that would crash it hard, kernel failure. There is a bugzilla about it, and as far as I know, not closed yet. And it is a known software problem, not hardware. You may not have hit software problems on btrfs, but other people have. If you are interested in checking, try writing many thousands of small files on a single directory, see what happens when you reach the million figures. Some filesystems error out nicely, some accept those many files without a problem or slowness, and some first slow down, and later they crash badly. Yes, it is a test. There not many real world loads that do this, but mainly because this has always been a problem and applications bypass it by dividing the load on a bunch of directories instead of doing it in a single one. Other people may know about other instances of software problems on filesystems. I happen to know about this one :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)