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As someone who uses a rolling release, I use btrfs because I don't want to deal with keeping ZFS up to date. It's been really good for me. And btrbk is the be
by streb-lo 3y ago
As someone who uses a rolling release, I use btrfs because I don't want to deal with keeping ZFS up to date.
It's been really good for me. And btrbk is the best backup solution I've had on Linux, btrfs send/receive is a lot faster than rsync even when sending non-incremental snapshots.
- kccqzy 3y agoSame here: I use a rolling release and btrfs. Personally I really enjoy btrfs's snapshot feature. Most of the time when I need backups it's not because of a hardware failure but because of a fat finger mistake where I rm'ed a file I need. Periodic snapshots completely solved that problem for me. (Of course, backing up to another disk is absolutely still needed, but you probably need it less than you think.)
- matja 3y ago> I don't want to deal with keeping ZFS up to date That's what DKMS is for, which most distros use for ZFS. Install and forget.
- streb-lo 3y agoI think the larger issue is that openzfs doesn't move in sync with the kernel so you have to check https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openzfs/zfs/master/META https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openzfs/zfs/master/META to make sure you can actually upgrade each time. On a rolling distro this is a pretty common breakage AFAIK. It's not the end of the world, but it is annoying.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoDepends on the rolling release; some distros specifically provide a kernel package that is still rolling, but is also always the latest version compatible with ZFS.
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