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btrfs has all those features as well and my original setup was mdadm raid 5 + LVM + ext4.

Regardless, I really haven't had any operational problems with btrfs for my 3 TB or so of data and when it has managed to get wedged because it couldn't allocate more space to the metadata pool during the initial import of data from my old array I fixed it with a simple rebalance command.

A cron set up to run a minor rebalance weekly helps ensure you never run into that situation in practice and I've not lost any data so for now I'm comfortable using btrfs as my primary filesystem.

I am a little concerned about the longevity of btrfs in general though because it hasn't been receiving a lot of development work lately.



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