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I have used it on NixOS for over a year on my main desktop and NAS box. The experience is .. flaky .. sometimes Kent does not have a new enough kernel version a
by jnsaff2 5y ago
I have used it on NixOS for over a year on my main desktop and NAS box. The experience is .. flaky .. sometimes Kent does not have a new enough kernel version available that NixOS needs, there have been several major breakages where some background tasks spin at 100% cpu forever and the file system slows down to a crawl, sometimes you need a to run fsck from a compat branch to get your fs back into shape. At the moment my desktop is broken because the NixOS config forgot how to unlock my root volume. But when it works, it mostly stays out of my way. I think I will move to ZFS for my desktop, there has been just too much faff with my setup. The claim about there not being any on-disk data loss, IDK, I have read from disk some large media files that have been broken .. when they had been written during a slow crawl while the fs processes were spinning 100%. So jury is still out there.
I totally agree with some parent commenter here that it needs a team to work with Kent. Documentation is almost nonexistent (tho ArchWiki saves the day a little).