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I actually spent some time using NILFS2 as a root filesystem on an SSD, but I could never get it to work properly, mostly due to lack of documentation and the added complexity of using a daemon to manage your filesystem.

It'd be nice to see a write up on the current state of BtrFS from someone involved in the project.

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I'm not involved with the fs, I just used it for a few weeks, after that, It started to hit some bugs in the code (kernel BUG macro, looked quite serious). And fsck was segfaulting. It was just my laptop, nothing fancy, I was using just compression, no subvolumes or anything more complicated. I'm not convinced it's stable enough for any serious use, unfortunately. (mostly 2.6.34 version)

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