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Erasure coding at the filesystem level? Finally!

I've not dared try bcachefs out though, I'm quite wary of data loss, even on my laptop. Does anyone have experience to share?




Had(have) a Laptop that crashed reproducible when touching it wrong. Had a few btrfs corruptions on it and after a while got enough. Have it running bcachefs as rootfs for a few years now and had no issue whatsoever with it. Home is still btrfs (for reasons) and had no data loss on that either. Only problems I had were fixed through booting and mounting it through a rescue system (no fsck necessary) had that twice in 2 years or so. Was too lazy to check what the bcachefs hook (aur package) does wrong.

Edit: Reasons for home being btrfs. I set this up a long fucking time ago and it was more or less meant as a stresstest for bcachefs. Since I didn't want data loss on important data (like my home) I left my home as btrfs




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