darkling, 15 days ago

@bentsukun "The hardware is absolutely fine" -- this is, I'm afraid, likely to be the mistake. You mentioned unclean shutdowns. If the disk has an incorrect behaviour with its cache, and claims to have written data to permanent storage when it's only put it into volatile cache RAM, then an unclean shutdown can have exactly this behaviour. When the power fails, the drive loses some of the writes. Lose the wrong ones (i.e. metadata), and the FS can't recover.

vwbusguy, 14 days ago

@darkling @bentsukun Yeah, unfortunately, you're almost certainly right. Generally, this ends up being indicative of a failing disk scenario and not caused by the filesystem itself.

release_candidate, 15 days ago

@bentsukun I find a lot of hype around btrfs, without the quality to actually support the claims.

For Linux systems I usually prefer LVM+ext4 and you have all those fancy features, including RAID.

From time to time I read about someone having trouble with btrfs and saying that the unstable days are not over.

It's a shame that new Fedora installer doesn't let you choose fs.

vwbusguy, 14 days ago

@release_candidate @bentsukun I've been using btrfs regularly since around 2015 on Fedora on several different machines and it's been great for me. Much of my day today at work was troubleshooting a corrupt lvm+ext4. Usually it's xfs that gives me trouble. There is no perfect filesystem for all use cases, but btrfs does a very good job for most of them.

(I'm also running it on my Asahi machines.)

vwbusguy, 14 days ago

@release_candidate @bentsukun The regular Fedora installer does let you pick the FS. Asahi is a bit of a special case.