You know, ZFS, ButterFS (btrfs…its actually “better” right?), and I’m sure more.
I think I have ext4 on my home computer I installed ubuntu on 5 years ago. How does the choice of file system play a role? Is that old hat now? Surely something like ext4 has its place.
I see a lot of talk around filesystems but Ive never found a great resource that distiguishes them at a level that assumes I dont know much. Can anyone give some insight on how file systems work and why these new filesystems, that appear to be highlights and selling points in most distros, are better than older ones?
Edit: and since we are talking about filesystems, it might be nice to describe or mention how concepts like RAID or LUKS are related.
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This is twelve years old, but it nicely illustrates what BTRFS (and ZFS on other OS) can do … https://youtu.be/9H7e6BcI5Fo?t=206
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ZFS also has snapshotting too FWIW.
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I wasn’t cool enough to figure out how to “just boot into a snapshot” when I tried btrfs a while ago. I mean I did figure it out (maybe?) but somehow the read/write rights where messed up and the snapshot couldn’t actually boot/I wasn’t able to log in +___+ Just reinstalled the system eith good old ext4. It sounds really cool, though …
Fedora out of the box just works
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Do you know how I could split my default
/var/home/userinto/var/home/user/.var,/var/home/user/Torrentsand the rest?Think that would be great for use with btrbk, when I find out how to use that.
Damn BTRFS and btrbk need an easy GUI, I have the feeling its great for backups
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