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Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

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LeoPanthera ◴[30 Aug 25 17:28 UTC] No.45076431[source]▶
It's orphaned in Debian as well, but I'm not sure what significant advantages it has over btrfs, which is very stable these days.
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betaby ◴[30 Aug 25 17:47 UTC] No.45076586[source]▶
btrfs was unusable in multi disk setup for kernels 6.1 and older. Didn't try since then. How's stable btrs today in such setups?

Also see https://www.phoronix.com/news/Josef-Bacik-Leaves-Meta

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cmurf ◴[30 Aug 25 18:14 UTC] No.45076834[source]▶
Absurd to claim it’s unusable without any qualification whatsoever.

Single, dup, raid0, raid1, raid10 have been usable and stable for a decade or more.

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bigstrat2003 ◴[31 Aug 25 08:19 UTC] No.45081435[source]▶
I lost my BTRFS RAID-1 array a year or two ago when one of my drives went offline. Just poof, data gone and I had to rebuild. I am not saying that it happens all the time, but I wouldn't say it's completely bulletproof either.
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1. thoroughburro ◴[31 Aug 25 13:18 UTC] No.45082950[source]▶
What did you try before giving up?

All the anecdotes I see tend to be “my drive didn’t mount, and I tried nothing before giving up because everyone knows BTRFS sux lol”. My professional experience meanwhile is that I’ve never once been able to not (very easily!) recover a BTRFS drive someone else has given up for dead… just by running its standard recovery tools.