How stable is btrfs at this point?
There's ways to free up space for real but you have to manually use some tools to do it from what I understand.
Panic? OOPS?
Pity I can't report these really, tainted (AMD) kernel.
The ability to make daily snapshots effortlessly is godsent on my tinkering computer (so I can rollback whatever stupid idea I came up with), and on a slow laptop with a even slower 2.5" PATA harddisk, I at least have the illusion of a performance improvement by LZO compression causing less disk-accesses.