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Re:S3QL: an S3 FS with encryption, de-dup, immutable trees a... by riquito on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @04:51AM (#10151347)
Anecdotal, but I use btrfs on my laptop since august 2014, had a good number of hard power off not related to btrfs and the filesystem never failed me once.

I had some problem with space though using intensively docker: in some situations btrfs thought that the free space was finished and I had to manually rebuild the metadata.

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Re:S3QL: an S3 FS with encryption, de-dup, immutable trees a... by vidarh on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @05:22AM (#10151431)
The Docker-on-Btrfs problems are/were severe enough that CoreOS now defaults to overlayfs on Ext4. I have a bunch of EC2 servers on CoreOS, and we ended up wiping Docker partitions regularly until that switch...
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Re:S3QL: an S3 FS with encryption, de-dup, immutable trees a... by pja on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @09:43AM (#10152229)
IIRC docker (or any other virtual machine filesystem) in a single image file and hashing filesystems mix really, really badly.

Docker could use BTRFS / ZFS snapshots instead of using whole filesystem image files though, so this ought to get better.

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