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For cold storage, the appeal of ZFS is the usual features of a backup software, primarily, checksums and snapshots (and to some extent ZFS recv, compression and
by aborsy 4y ago
For cold storage, the appeal of ZFS is the usual features of a backup software, primarily, checksums and snapshots (and to some extent ZFS recv, compression and integration with ZFS live systems).
In particular, with ext4+LUKS, there is no way to know if there are silent bit errors.
- nine_k 4y agoWith XFS and ZFS available on Linux, I haven't used ext4 for maybe a decade. I wonder what is a compelling case to create a new ext4 volume as of now.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoAccording to Phoronix [0], at least with kernel 5.14, ext4 seems somewhat faster. [0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-5.14-File-Systems https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-5.14-File-Systems
- sgarland 4y agoUsing Rancher's Longhorn, because XFS causes random volume corruption. [0] https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/issues/3597 https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/issues/3597
- qalmakka 4y agoYeah, that's why I like to use LUKS + ZFS nowadays for cold storage, at least you get a bit of support against bitrot and it's not that unwieldy.