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Fedora 42 installer defaults to btrfs? What's everyone's opinion or experience on that? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not a tech support question, I'm just curious. I recently installed it. Everything is working great, feels like I got a whole new laptop compared to my previous setup. I haven't tried out any of btrfs's unique features, so I dunno, nothing special I can report about it. Coming from Debian I was just surprized by how different Fedoras installer defaults are. Do you agree with btrfs being a default option?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

That's been the default for years

The big reason is that btrfs has more features like copy on write, snapshots, subvolumes and data validation.

It used to eat data but that's not been the case for a few years

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Another great thing about BTRFS is that it can detect hardware problems sooner: if your BTRFS drive keeps losing data to corruption; that's because it has detected a corruption that other FS's would silently work with

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