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Re:Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33 by chasil on Monday August 24, 2020 @10:15AM (#24260850)
There are concerns with ZFS of the "scrub of death" on a system lacking ECC ram:

https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y...

There is some debate on this question:

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=...

I'm curious if the situation is improved for BtrFS.

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Re:Btrfs Coming to Fedora 33 by pseudalopex on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:47AM (#24268708)
The first link actually explains why ZFS is no more dangerous than any other filesystem.
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