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#fedora 33's default installer defaults to btrfs nowthey also use btrfs correctly (subvol 5 contains home and root subvols, which are mounted via -o subvol=/{home,root})I am honestly very impressed, they're the first installer I know of that gets this right
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@toast correct why?
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@nik @toast doing scrub with compression is really slow, but
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@toast huh that does seem really nicei remember hearing that btrfs is kinda ouchy slow with spinning disks, is that true?
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@toast what are btrfs's advantages?
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@nik you get most of zfs' features, without the need for a ram cache (it's fast enough, especially on an ssd, to just not use one), and in a more linux-native formatalso no resilvering (rebalancing is a thing but everything is usable during a rebalance)if you don't know zfs, then:you get filesystem level lvm with dynamic quotas, snapshots, the ability to send snapshots filesystem-level (think rsync except no need to worry about stuff like permissions), CoW (too much to really talk about here), in-line compression (including zstd, iirc? I don't use it)the lvm stuff includes multi-device btw