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Re:ntfs2btrfs: In-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to Btrfs by coder543 on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:54PM (#30591029)
bcachefs is probably the other big name here, but since distros still seem to pick btrfs, I don't think it's considered "production ready" yet. The bcachefs website still labels it as "beta" quality.
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Re:ntfs2btrfs: In-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to Btrfs by doublepg23 on Monday March 07, 2022 @01:00PM (#30591109)
The best way to stay up-to-date on bcachefs is the Patreon, Kent writes great updates there.

https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs

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Re:ntfs2btrfs: In-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to Btrfs by londons_explore on Monday March 07, 2022 @01:09PM (#30591229)
bcachefs is written by the same person who wrote bcache... And that has a lot of subtle eat-your-data pitfalls.[1] I don't really trust bcachefs not to do the same.

[1]: https://omattos.com/2020/01/02/bcache.html

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Re:ntfs2btrfs: In-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to Btrfs by assbuttbuttass on Monday March 07, 2022 @04:22PM (#30593489)
bcachefs isn't even mainlined yet. You'd have to build your own kernel to test it out (or I think NixOS packages it)
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