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Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Possibly because of better reliability. If a filesystem breaks, all subvolumes it contains break in turn. Whereas independent filesystems will continue to run if one is corrupted.