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Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by throwawayboise on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:39PM (#26497097)
What is the benefit of using ZFS on a personal or dev machine? I almost never tinker with filesystem partitions or allocation once I set them up as part of installing an OS. I occasionally do on a production machine if I've misjudged space needed for something, but there again it's pretty rare.
Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by JdeBP on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @06:26PM (#26497561)
Boot environments for operating system upgrades. They take advantage of ZFS.
Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by laumars on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @06:59PM (#26497847)
Snapshots was the biggie that made me switch to ZFS more than 10 years ago. Never looked back.
Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by nix23 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @05:51PM (#26497209)
Oh it's massive especially for kernel-devs/os-devs, snapshots and boot-environments (bectl)....for personal machines...zfs-send..never have to think about correct backups/restores anymore.
Re:FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience by Marsymars on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:44PM (#26508791)
I run Windows and macOS on my personal and dev machines (so don’t use ZFS), but I’d really appreciate the peace of mind of bit rot protection.