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Matt Hamilton@eriner@noauthority.social (2026-08-21 10:30:14)
@sun Back circa 2016 I was like "btrfs is pretty mature now, I should use that".
Of course, I had PROBLEMS.
Then I started using zfs for my NAS and critical data.
Now I format drives with ext4, disable journaling, take a big gulp, spin the cylinder, then pull the trigger.
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Matt Hamilton@eriner@noauthority.social (2026-08-21 10:35:05)
@sun on that note, do you actually use zfs features? Or do you just want the reliability?
Even when I used btrfs I never used snapshotting or anything. I always thought that having any kind of backup (aside from checksums/integrity info) sitting next to live data was silly.
CoW is good I guess, but I thrashed a drive something fierce before I remembered to disable that for VM images.
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-21 12:13:33)
@eriner I use snapshotting a lot for multiple things including database and a couple blockchain nodes. also it afaik doesn't so much prevent corruption as it detects physical failure a lot faster.