On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM Javier Perez <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> George N. White III wrote in a post something that resonated with me.
>
> A lot of effort has gone towards improving the default configuration, (but
>> now new problems for users who don't do btrfs maintenance and end up with
>> broken filesystems).  It is assumed that users going outside the defaults
>>
>
> Is there any link, tutorial, etc that explains what kind of btrfs
> maintenance we are supposed to be doing?
> Long time btrfs user and have never knowingly performed any maintenance on
> my btrfs filesystem except balancing after converting from single HDD to
> raid 1 my system.
>


> I wonder what I have been missing (ignorance is bliss :( )
> Thanks
>

See: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg90536.html and
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs (Arch Linux often has
excellent documentation).

Fedora has maintenance tools:

btrfsmaintenance: Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks

btrfsd: Btrfsd is a lightweight daemon that takes care of all Btrfs
filesystems on a Linux system.

*btrfs-assistant: *GUI management tool to make managing a Btrfs filesystem
easier.

I use btrfs-assistant which has a weak dependency on btrfs maintenance.  I
have been using default settings on 3 systems
(laptop, old iMac, and desktop) with SSD's for several years, but do
backups on spinning media with XFS (from many years with XFS on SGI IRIX64
I come to trust it).

--
George N. White III
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