I’m having trouble understanding all the benefits of BTRFS and how they’ll apply to me.

Copy on Write and auto-compression seem like they will free up a bit of space.

What other practical benefits will I see from using BTRFS? Are there any noticeable performance benefits?

I use my computer to dual-boot. I don’t need snapshots because I have a custom script for a fresh install. I use my PC for gaming and work. I’ve got an NVMe, two SSD’s and one HDD.

Thanks in advance!

  • radiofreeval [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    For me, snapshots are the best part of BTRFS because you can easily roll back bad updates without doing a fresh install. It might not be worth reinstalling for, but there’s no reason not to on your next install.

    • Zozano@aussie.zoneOP
      11·
      1 year ago

      I know it’s all in my head, but there’s something about a fresh install that gives me comfort.

      I do a fresh install every few months when something starts behaving funky and it’s normally faster than figuring out what’s wrong.

      Snapshots just don’t have the same appeal to me lol

      • Neil@lemmy.ml
        English
        71·
        1 year ago

        I was the same way as a teenager. I would reformat and swap out hard drives for more space, all the good stuff. I mined BTC for a few months, but gave up because it was worthless and I couldn’t play my video games.

        Well, after reformatting and swapping drives so much I now have a stack of drives I’ve combed over dozens of times with a fine-toothed comb. My bitcoin wallet was in one of them, with millions of dollars worth of coins sitting in it never to be seen again.

        Has nothing to do with the topic at hand, but your post reminded me of that (as do many other things), so I thought I’d share.

        • Zozano@aussie.zoneOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          Damn bro, start learning about data recovery. I would be investing all my time into it.

      • lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        You do a fresh install every couple months? Damn. I’m using the same install from like… 7 years ago? Which was also 3 laptops ago. I just keep copying the install partitions from one laptop drive to the next.

        There is definitely something rewarding to figuring out an issue and fixing it, vs starting from scratch every time. Also, you realistically shouldn’t be having serious issues every few months, unless you’re running a rolling distro like arch and there’s issues with packages. I do think a bit of that might be in your head,or you’re experiencing some weird hardware issues/failure.

        • baraan@lemmy.tanktrace.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          Switched hardware on my home server last week and moved to proxmox. My Ubuntu installation that was running before that was installed 2011.