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Just before I exited the Linux world entirely, I was beginning to chip away at the iceberg known as btrfs, and it was fascinating. I saw so much promise in many
by NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Just before I exited the Linux world entirely, I was beginning to chip away at the iceberg known as btrfs, and it was fascinating. I saw so much promise in many of its features, for revolutionizing backups and organizing my disks and everything.
Now btrfs isn't ZFS, but it has some feature parity and perhaps the "poor man's ZFS". It's also much more reasonable to run on certain OS, due to the licensing, packaging, and in-kernel status of ZFS being kind of weird.
One memorable time I was encouraged to use ZFS was when I mentioned to the Linux User's Group that I'd had to pull the power cord to reboot my computer, and I was roundly scorned for this foolish maneuver. But you may change your mind about the wisdom of doing either one when you consider that the system in question was a Raspberry Pi. Heh.
- KennyFromIT 3y agoAlright, I'll bite... What led you to leaving the Linux world entirely? What can "the community" learn from your experience to make it better for others?
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoLinux is a great fantastic experience, and I have no qualms or ill will about it. I simply had no use for it anymore, and I needed to simplify. I've said before, I'm not a sysadmin anymore, I don't tinker with systems, I need stuff to be operational and in production. I still love Linux and I'd use it for any given server or Raspi if that were part of my job. I do use it daily in my job, but to a very minimal extent.
- theaiquestion 3y agoDid you switch to a mac or to a windows machine?
- worthless-trash 3y agoThey said "Operational and in production" :)
- raincole 3y agoI honestly don't know which one you implied.
- scbrg 3y agoBSD
- lannisterstark 3y agoSo Ubuntu Server LTS, got it ;)
- eternityforest 3y agoThe pi supposedly can get FS corruption, but I've never seen it because every time I install an image, I run a script that puts tmpfses everywhere and turns off mostly useless logging. Those things just run for ever, very reliably, as long as you don't hammer the SD card. ZFS looks so cool! Unfortunately when I eventually get a NAS I doubt I'll want to pay for anything that can run it, so I suspect I'll just be doing RAID and ext4. I always stayed away from BTRFS, because every few months I'd see a "BTRFS destroyed my data" post, followed by an argument about if it was BTRFSes fault. I see them less now, perhaps it's time to revisit?
- lost_tourist 3y agois that a script that is maintained and up to date and available on the web? Just curious. I've done this stuff manually and have a check list, but I never wrote a script because I didn't trust myself enough just barely knowing a little bit of bash myself. Another survival technique is to get a very large sd card like 64GB because wear leveling should increase the life. I have one rpi that's been going nonstop for 4 years now and the sdcard appears to be fine. Not sure why rpi guys don't have a "choose long term reliability over kitchen sink" option for setup (or even an image!)
- eternityforest 3y agoIt's in the kaithem-kioskify up a little earlier in this thread. Eventually I'll probably move it to a standalone thing since there seems to be a whole lot of interest in the SD protection feature, but it's missing a few of hacks for programs I don't really use anymore, like the apache logfile thing, just because I got tired of maintaining stuff that didn't have much interest.
- upon_drumhead 3y agoUbuntu ships with ZFS support, as well as TrueNAS. I personally run my nas with Ubuntu and ZFS and love it.
- chromakode 3y ago
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- nicman23 3y agobtrfs only thing that i do not like at all is the fragmentation that it is prone to having. especially with sparse VMs images. zvols are so much better for that