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I've had btrfs loose my laptops root filesystem, it just wouldn't mount anymore for no apparent reason. This was ~6 or 7 years ago. Reading the fs with some rescue command worked fine, the ssd continued to work for a few more years after formatting.

I've also had a weird situation after that where a micro SD formatted with btrfs on my desktop PC wouldn't mount on a raspberry pi, and vice-versa the same micro SD formatted on the pi wouldn't mount on the desktop. This was apparently caused by a difference in the used block sizes, which were mutually incompatible.

So I'll quote myself on this.

But also, my server is running a btrfs raid 1 due to the flexibility for resizing and that has been just fine for a few years now. It's not black and white and with backups I am not really worried.




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