• aksdb@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    ZFS. I want snapshots, volumes, encryption etc. btrfs fucked me over too often. Also I prefer the semantics of the zfs and zpool utils and the way mount points are handled. Thanks to ZFSBootMenu I can even have /boot as a zfs volume and have it therefore incluced in my snapshots. And did I mention that all of that is encrypted? Anyway. Love it.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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      1 year ago

      ZFS is really like the god filesystem: it supports basically everything you might want out of the box. Compression, encryption, snapshots, CoW, RAID, checksumming, casefolding/case insentivity, block volumes, you name it.

      You can get compression, snapshots and CoW with btrfs and some basic RAID, but not encryption. You can get encryption with ext4 but pretty much nothing else. Gotta do LUKS and LVM if you want volume management, mdadm if you want any sort of RAID. f2fs does pretty much nothing but flash friendly storage.

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        1 year ago

        It’s a shame it can’t be included in the mainline kernel. Especially over what seems to be a legal technicality.