> Btrfs does support compression, but it's obscure to access and use, it may as well not exist.<p>What's wrong with it?<p><pre><code> mount -o compress=zstd /dev/sdx /mnt</code></pre>
> Even now in 2024 btrfs is one of the slowest Linux filesystems, and it does not take long to find reports of ongoing data corruption issues.<p>Please stop spreading FUD, this is simply not true.<p>I would argue that most problems that people experience with btrfs today are because of hardware issues, btrfs is simply detecting those errors thanks to checksumming.<p>Yes, it is slower than other filesystems and RAID 5/6 is still unstable but blaming btrfs for everything is simply wrong.