Re: probably shouldn't feed the trolls...
Having switched recently to OpenSuse and SLES, Btrfs has quite a learning curve. Some of their features like subovols almost seem like a solution in search of a problem. Perhaps the btrfs community and Suse has done a poor job in clearly explaining what the advantages (and Liabilities) of btrfs are.
One enterprise user I talked to said that his metadata fills up on his root volume and locked up his system, I know that you can run janitor programs that balance the system. However, it seems that these systems are tuned to resolve esoteric problems like bitrot and system rollback after updates but create more issues for the Sys Admins then they solve. I know that Kernel 4.19 has improvements for btrfs. However, t unless you are running OpenSuse tumbleweed or unless Suse decides to bacport thes fixes for SLES 15 not going to help in the short term future.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
