SUSE reaffirms support for Btrfs

Posted Aug 30, 2017 12:28 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: SUSE reaffirms support for Btrfs by Wol
Parent article: SUSE reaffirms support for Btrfs

A sysadmin will do scrubs, will monitor SMART etc, and won't be surprised by a disk failure...

Your assumption that scrubbing and SMART will reliably detect disk failures is not very accurate. There are sudden failures, for starters, where the drive works until it suddenly doesn't: but also SMART is not terribly reliable at the best of times, and scrubbing is more to guard against slow magnetic degradation than to discern whether the drive is on its way out.