tell me your experience using zfs/btrfs
tell me your experience using zfs/btrfs
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/9319044
Hey,
I am planning to implement authenticated boot inspired from Pid Eins' blog. I'll be using pam mount for /home/user. I need to check integrity of all partitions.
I have been using luks+ext4 till now. I am
hesistanthesitant to switch to zfs/btrfs, afraid I might fuck up. A while back I accidently purged '/' trying out timeshift which was my fault.Should I use zfs/btrfs for /home/user? As for root, I'm considering luks+(zfs/btrfs) to be restorable to blank state.
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I haven't used them professionally but I've been using ZFS on my home router (OPNsense) and NAS (TrueNAS with RAID-Z2) for many years without problem. I've used Btrfs on laptops and desktops with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for the past year and a bit, also without problem. Btrfs snapshots have saved me a couple of times when I messed something up. Both seem like solid filesystems for everyday use.
Why ZFS on a router?
The two options are UFS and ZFS, and their documentation recommends that ZFS is more reliable. I had UFS before and after a power outage the router wouldn't reboot, so I switched to ZFS. That was two or three years ago and the router has stayed up since then (except one time when an SSD died, but that was a hardware failure).
Honestly I'm surprised UFS is still a thing. I guess its useful for read only flash.