On 2024-01-31, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:45 AM John Covici <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I know you said you wanted to stay with ext4, but going to zfs reduced >> my backup time on my entire system from several hours to just a few >> minutes because taking a snapshot is so quick and copying to another >> pool is also very quick. >> > > Honestly, at this point I would not run any storage I cared about on > anything but zfs. There are just so many benefits.
I'll definitely put zfs on my list of things to play with. I've been a little reluctant in the past because it wasn't natively supported. I don't use an initrd (or modules in general). So, using a filesystem that isn't supported in-tree sounded like too much work. -- Grant
