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Bug#646699: marked as done (Please make partman-btrfs optional as BTRFS is too unstable)

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Package: btrfs
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss

BTRFS shouldn't be offert as a option filesystem in the debian installer.
It is unsafe to use. Quallity is poor. No recovery possible on filesystem errors. (The btrfs driver will even crash on a filesystem error)
The provided tool btrfsck doesn't actually do anything.
There doesn't seem to be any progres on a working btrfsck.

Atleased users should be warned to not use it, unless they don't care about dataloss



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Version: 54

Closing this decade old bug, which is no longer relevant.  IMHO btrfs
has been usable since partman-btrfs 35, and 54 shipped with bullseye,
which uses linux 5.10.  Don't forget that Fedora default installations
have used btrfs since Fedora 33 (linux 5.9).

Btrfs on 32bit systems is something else, but this bug report is for
amd64.

Best,
Nicholas

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