Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.

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My anecdotal experience with btrfs is that it constantly broke in raid 1, no problems with any other filesystems on the exact same hardware and setup. YMMV

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How long ago was that? Modern btrfs is pretty stable.

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Last year, unraid, identical SSDs. I changed so many sata and power cables, so many settings.

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I love it for single drives, but for RAID, ZFS all the way.

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ZFS also supports single drives, is there a reason to use btrfs instead?

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IIRC it works with TimeShift, aka time machine for Linux.

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