**I converted my gaming PC from BTRFS to EXT4 and this happened:** (I'm not even kidding)
✅ Steam startup issues fixed
✅ Wine startup issues fixed
✅ Weird system freezes gone
✅ Vastly improved storage performance
✅ System feels 100x more responsive
I used to be a huge fan of BTRFS, but *boy* does it feel good to be back on EXT4. I guess new isn't always better.
#Linux #Steam #Wine #BTRFS #EXT4 #GamingOnLinux #LinuxGaming
BTRFS was a disappointment for me as well. It ate my data. And it's whole "shtick" was data integrity...
Same happened to me. Been a long time btrfs advocate, it just seemed like an ideal modern FS with very useful features, FS-level RAID, CoW, transparent compression, snapshots, automatic TRIM, subvolumes that eliminate the need of LVM in my usecases, no fixed amount of inodes... It's great, until you start hitting problems like fully allocated metadata partition, or some corruption that will keep tainting the FS and it'll refuse to mount, not to mention that there's no tool like 'fsck' for BTRFS and it's easy to further break the FS while attempting to repair it, and the need to regularily balance the FS.
At some point btrfs got corrupted seemingly out of nowhere on my root partition, twice with some time in-between (at first I blamed my drives and reinstalled) and I couln't recover from it, so I simply went back to good old ext4 and it's been working as expected.
