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		chasil 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel Allowing btrfs to run out of space is well known to do irreparable damage. Keeping it healthy means paying close attention to "btrfs fi df" and/or "fi usage" for best results. ZFS also does not react well to running out of space.

Conan_Kudo 5 months ago [–]

I've been running Btrfs on Fedora for a decade now (and it's been the default since 2020). I have basically never done any of those things and it's been fine. I've had to do more babysitting with my ZFS systems than I did my Btrfs ones.

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