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What are the pros and cons of btrfs? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently started using Fedora with btrfs, which I think was the default on install. So far all I've noticed is that backups and restores are really fast and easy.

Are there any important things to be aware of, like speed, drive lifespan or energy efficiency?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

backups and restores are really fast and easy.

snapshots are not backups. for your own good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good to know! Can you elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

they don't protect against hardware failures and accidents while editing your partition table.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They're a kind of backup...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's more healthy to think of it as a form of write protection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it's more for system recovery