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Re:Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems by pfranz on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:07PM (#13786565)
I don't really have any deep insight into the status of Btrfs. A few years ago I was playing around with my Raspberry Pi and it required me to build the newest kernel just to work--I also remember hearing they wouldn't take bug reports until you were using bleeding edge tools. Not very comforting if you were looking to roll out into production.

On the flip-side, Synology just rolled out Btrfs in and update and I'm pretty sure it's the default partition type going forward. They don't expose all the fancy features like dedup, but the fact it's default shows some confidence.

So it sounds like it's being actively developed and getting closer to being trustworthy.

Re:Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems by newman314 on Saturday March 04, 2017 @12:56AM (#13789536)
Synology has had btrfs for a while. Their latest release just made it available for more models.

That said, when I bought a 916 last year, I ended up sticking with just ext4 as I needed something that would definitely work. I anticipate that I will at some point switch over.