I’m using EndeavourOS with ext4 file system for daily usage and a dual bootable Windows for gaming. What I want to have right now is getting rid of Windows completely.
When I tried it before, I had to try multiple tweaks for a game and find which one worked on Linux. Therefore, I want to take a snapshot with BTRFS and try it until I find the right configuration.
While I have quite a bit of experience with Linux, I’ve never used BTRFS. Do you think it’s worth it?
I thought about keeping the games on the ext4 system, but I hate splitting the disk. I’m thinking of keeping the games in a non-snapshot volume.
UPDATE: I just re-installed EndeavourOS with BTRFS + snapper + BTRFS Assistant :)
Reading the manpage (btrfs-filesystem), duplication can happen on some odd kernel versions, so no danger.
Edit: that was my interpretation of breaking up reflinks of cow data anyway. Seems there’s more.
If I know correctly, defrag will always duplicate the reflink files.
https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Defragmentation.html
Well, compression doubled my available space. ;-)