Re: Btrfs by default, the compression option

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> Yes, it's completely reasonable to not do it. It might seem like a big
> change on its own, but Btrfs has had native compression for 10+ years,
> and at least three years for most all of the workloads at Facebook. So
> it's quite safe.

But it has been eating data as recently as 2018 [1] and the Debian wiki warns strongly against using compression that is dated for 2020 [2].  The project will already see a large number of new bugs thanks to the wider breadth of hardware, why throw in an additional variable when you can flip it on in six months anyway?

1: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg81293.html
2: https://wiki.debian.org/Btrfs#Warnings
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