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@feld @BalooUriza I wouldn’t say it’s terrible, at least not now. I’ve had really good success with it for basic stuff and hardware caused fs corruption recovery. It’s basically the NTFS of Linux filesystems. It gets the job done, but lacks interesting features from others (deduplication, ssd optimizations, snapshots), but has some that the alternatives don’t.

For example:

• XFS is faster, but cannot be repaired online, AFAIK there’s no fs shrinking
• BTRFS corrupts itself if you run out of space and use compression, RAID 5/6 is broken for many years now, slows down to a crawl if you use quotas and big snapshots