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Most people don’t run ZFS on their laptop, desktop so let’s not pretend it’s such a huge deal.

• BSDobelix 2y ago
  Most people run Windows on their Laptop (without ReFS), and many people use paid data restore services if something "important" gets missing/corrupt. >let’s not pretend it’s such a huge deal Depends on the importance of you data right?
  • louwrentius 2y ago
    I bet even 99.9% of HN visitors don’t run ZFS on their laptop/desktop. Basically we all take this risk except for a few dedicated nerds. Everything has a price and people like to have their uncorrupted files, but not at all cost.
    • rabf 2y ago
      I find this thinking difficult to reconcile. When I setup up my workstation it does usually take me half a day to sort out an encrypted rootfs mirrored volume with zfsbootmenu + linux, but after that its all set for the next decade. A small price for the peace of mind it affords.
    • BSDobelix 2y ago
      >Everything has a price and people like to have their uncorrupted files, but not at all cost. I have ZFS on nearly all machines and i don't have any cost, the opposite is actually true because of compression, snapshots an boot environment. >I bet even 99.9% of HN visitors don’t run ZFS on their laptop/desktop I really don't care that much what others run since 99.9% of HN don't run FreeBSD...probably, well except HN itself ;)