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Re:What is the actual state of brtfs? by svjatoslav on Sunday December 25, 2016 @06:07PM (#13255895)
I'm using it without data loss incidents for over 1.5 years now. On SSD drive I have encrypted volume. On top of it I have LVM volume. Ot top of it BTRFS partition. I use compress-force=lzo,autodefrag mount options. Works well for personal computer use case. I always follow latest kernel from Debian backports repo. I red that some RAID modes are implemented poorly it BTRFS still.
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Re:What is the actual state of brtfs? by Someone on Sunday December 25, 2016 @06:23PM (#13255983)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Btrfs#RAID: "Parity RAID (RAID 5/6) code has multiple serious data-loss bugs in it.".

AFAIK, that was true back in July. It likely still is.

I have no opinion on whether using it without it is safe, but I would definitely avoid RAID.

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Re:What is the actual state of brtfs? by bantunes on Sunday December 25, 2016 @07:02PM (#13256122)
A fix has been proposed recently:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg60595.html

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Re:What is the actual state of brtfs? by Bombthecat on Monday December 26, 2016 @04:39AM (#13257642)
Ha thanks! That what I was hoping for!
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