Re:An Introduction to ZFS
by hardwaresofton on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:51AM
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Thank you for this input -- yeah it's just so weird that BTRFS is in the mainline kernel, but no one wants to stand up for it, and people are evidently using it with great success (Facebook for example).
I'm also not necessarily going to do any RAID5/6 stuff -- I'm probably just going to keep it safe (for my level of understanding) and do a RAID1/mirror setup and call it a day. The snapshots/cow/data integrity bit is definitely what I'm interested in as well. It feels to me like as long as I run ZFS under my servers I am much safer than anything else (and it's easier/possible to go back in time and undo mistakes).
Unfortunately, there's that whole thing about it being hard to boot to.. Is that still a thing?
BTRFS hard to boot to? You mean, to have it as your boot partition? I guess that could be true. I still use vfat (I think) for boot, cus I just don't care. :D
But for the rest of it, I just have everything in my fstab and it works like anything else. Super easy.
Re:An Introduction to ZFS
by SomeoneFromCA on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:38AM
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OpenSUSE uses it as the default FS.
Plus, I love snapper and the way subvolumes and snapshots are handled.
EDIT: I will add that I don't use any RAID. I use BTRFS for snapshots, cow and data integrity on my single drive desktops. I think that's where it ready shines. I don't think anyone should be using EXT4 anymore.