free and open source operating system that never has issues like this
ever use BTRFS?
Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I sure hope nobody recommends me to use a free and open source operating system that never has issues like this over this proprietary OS that I’m used too and have been paying licensing fees for since I started using computers.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 23 hours ago
vikingtons@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I’ve only recently been made aware of btrfs’ tendency to completely fuck data at failure states.
I’ve been using that filesystem on fedora for maybe two years now without issue, though I suppose I don’t regularly find myself hitting the issues required to cause these problems.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 15 hours ago
Well yeah, like the article I linked says:
It has now been nearly eight years since the “experimental” tag was removed, but many of btrfs’ age-old problems remain unaddressed and effectively unchanged. So, we’ll repeat this once more: as a single-disk filesystem, btrfs has been stable and for the most part performant for years. But the deeper you get into the new features btrfs offers, the shakier the ground you walk on—that’s what we’re focusing on today.
So if you’re just using it for your PC hard drive you’re probably fine. The problem is that BTRFS is intended to provide similar features to RAID and ZFS, but that’s where it starts failing.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 23 hours ago
Because you got older and realized just because your teachers and parents wasted their money now that you’re an adult there a better way?
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
fuck linux bloody
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Linux has had its fair share of nasty bugs
The difference is that you are unlikely to be affected unless you are running a very recent untested kernel.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I live dangerously with my fully up to date Arch box.
But I also have an LTS Ubuntu box that’s been humming away in the background for about the last five-ish years? Just a quiet little file server, doing its job and being ignored.