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Is it worth switching to BTRFS for the average user? (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm having trouble understanding all the benefits of BTRFS and how they'll apply to me.

Copy on Write and auto-compression seem like they will free up a bit of space.

What other practical benefits will I see from using BTRFS? Are there any noticeable performance benefits?

I use my computer to dual-boot. I don't need snapshots because I have a custom script for a fresh install. I use my PC for gaming and work. I've got an NVMe, two SSD's and one HDD.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, snapshots are the best part of BTRFS because you can easily roll back bad updates without doing a fresh install. It might not be worth reinstalling for, but there's no reason not to on your next install.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know it's all in my head, but there's something about a fresh install that gives me comfort.

I do a fresh install every few months when something starts behaving funky and it's normally faster than figuring out what's wrong.

Snapshots just don't have the same appeal to me lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You do a fresh install every couple months? Damn. I'm using the same install from like... 7 years ago? Which was also 3 laptops ago. I just keep copying the install partitions from one laptop drive to the next.

There is definitely something rewarding to figuring out an issue and fixing it, vs starting from scratch every time. Also, you realistically shouldn't be having serious issues every few months, unless you're running a rolling distro like arch and there's issues with packages. I do think a bit of that might be in your head,or you're experiencing some weird hardware issues/failure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Switched hardware on my home server last week and moved to proxmox. My Ubuntu installation that was running before that was installed 2011.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

the main advantage of snapshots is how fast it happen, in two reboots with little to no wait time you can get your system back