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tell me your experience using zfs/btrfs (self.linux)

submitted 9 months ago by unhinge to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/9319044

Hey,

I am planning to implement authenticated boot inspired from Pid Eins' blog. I'll be using pam mount for /home/user. I need to check integrity of all partitions.

I have been using luks+ext4 till now. I am ~~hesistant~~ hesitant to switch to zfs/btrfs, afraid I might fuck up. A while back I accidently purged '/' trying out timeshift which was my fault.

Should I use zfs/btrfs for /home/user? As for root, I'm considering luks+(zfs/btrfs) to be restorable to blank state.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Btrfs is default on OpenSUSE, has worked great for me for 7 years. No issues.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same here, but for only 1 year on my main machine and 6 years on my laptop. I looove snapper. It saved my ass so many times

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes it is great. For me snapper rollback was an awesome onboarding experience to linux. Being eager to try things I read online for tweaks and general explorarion it brought me back to a working system after some custom kernel compiling gone awry, or deleting the wrong file etc.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've been on btrfs for so many years, with nightly backups with restic, so I've been dragging my feet on snapper. Finally installed it a couple weeks ago, and while I opened the config, I don't think I changed anything. It's worked so well, and the Arch package was so well done, that I'd forgotten I had it installed until a few days later I noticed that it was taking snapshots every time before I installed something. It's shockingly good, and I don't understand why btrfs+snapper(+grub-btrfs) isn't the default on installs now.