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[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

ZFS is still the de-facto standard of a reliable filesystem. It’s super stable, and annoyingly strict on what you can do with it.

Yes and that's the reason why I usually pick BTRFS for less complex things.

[-] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah. I would not for example install ZFS to a laptop. It's just not great there, and it doesn't like things such as sudden power failure, and it uses kind of a lot of memory...

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Meanwhile BTRFS provides me with snapshots and rollbacks that are a useful when I'm messing with the system. And subvolumes bring a lot of flexibility for containers and general management.

[-] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 1 points 8 months ago

For sure. I would say if you run a distro like Arch, using it without cow filesystem and snapshots is not a good idea... You can even integrate snapshots with pacman and bootloader.

I've been running nixos for so long, that I don't really need snapshots. You can always boot to the previous state if needed.

If you write software and run tests against a database, I'd avoid having the docker volumes on btrfs pool. The performance is not great.

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