Not a tech support question, I’m just curious. I recently installed it. Everything is working great, feels like I got a whole new laptop compared to my previous setup. I haven’t tried out any of btrfs’s unique features, so I dunno, nothing special I can report about it. Coming from Debian I was just surprized by how different Fedoras installer defaults are. Do you agree with btrfs being a default option?
If you’re running btrfs manually and don’t setup clean up scripts I’m slightly confused how you get into trouble in the first place since that also means there won’t be any automated snapshots.
You can assign auto snapshots or create on demand, but whether or not you have a maintenance tool that does scrub, cleaning whatever is another story. I guess my point was something that has Btrfs as default install will also have some curation around the tools that optimize that system
I guess I just feel like if you’re manually configuring BTRFS you’ll either use it like a regular FS, or you’ll set it up to make use of the features in which case you’ll probably setup both automatic snapshots and cleanup. Possibly with auto scrubbing too. I don’t really see a situation where someone who manually opts to use it sets up snapshotting manually and then doesn’t setup any form of cleanup.
If you browse the webs so many people with “Help my drive is full of snapshots, what do I do?”. If there is a failure mode people will find it. Whereas a curated distro is OOTB ready to go without user intervention.