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> Btrfs is _stable_ - some people believed it would never be possible, ever Didn't know that. Is it worth looking into over ZFS?

• wormius 1mo ago
  For desktop I think it would be fine, though if you have the advanced needs of all the ZFS features I would stick with ZFS, but I had no problem. The real problem I had was a low limit to save history. I install a lot of software, Cachy would run the snapshot every time (good), but it only kept like 5-10. And the one I needed to restore to was further back (I can't remember the exact issue), but that was more the defaults of how cachy set it up, and my use case than btrfs/snapper itself. Whatever tool you use to snapshot btrfs, you may wish to have a custom number of saves if you install tons of software a lot...so you can avoid having too few backups available from the boot menu. I'm sure there was a way around it but I said f it and just reinstalled instead of trying to look up on my crap tablet how to get at the old files (assuming they were still there and just not accessible from the boot menu vs being completely erased). I do not think it was btrfs that broke, to be clear. This was like a week before the big hack on AUR, so I wonder if I got hit by a supply attack, but it was pretty shoddy, and broke my system, thus my reinstall saved me from (possibly) a lot more pain down the road.
• rcxdude 1mo ago
  It still doesn't have a great reputation.