Re: Alternative FS OS Installs (btrfs, zfs)

[Michael Butash]

I thought I'd read there was some native encryption in btrfs added at some point, but seems they indicate to just continue to use luks here too.  All in all, I'm trying to remove these "layers", otherwise I'm pretty good with just sticking to my current mechanisms.  This is what they seem to indicate doing, but now I still need either efi or grub partitions again.  Ugh. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#Creating_btrfs_subvolumes Encryption is a big component for me, with raid and volume management secondary.  Simplicity would be nice, but manageable complexity would be nice as well, as this has worked for me for the past 10 years. The whole gpt thing even with a regular sata ssd I just simply could not get to work with arch, which was a bit disappointing.  I really want to make arch work, it always sounds great, but I've never made it work for me long enough I haven't gotten annoyed with some form of brokenness too. Maybe I'll just stick to mbr+mdadm/luks/lvm/ext4, still seems the best, most reliable thing going as far as linux is concerned. -mb On 12/04/2016 04:22 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: I have tried both, and the built in nature of BTRFS has sold me over ZFS. Both worked great for me, but BTRFS is batteries included.  That being said, I pretty much exclusively use Arch which tends to have much more current everything than Ubuntu. Kevin On Dec 3, 2016 12:22 PM, "Michael Butash" <m...@butash.net> wrote: Anyone using "alternative" file system methods like btrfs or zfs to boot with?  Nothing seems too native, but can be made to work it seems, just wondering if this is one of those "should do" vs. "can do". The notion of something that can do raid, encryption, volume management, and snapshot features is attractive, but I've always layered mdraid, luks encryption, lvm, then ext atop that.  This has been pretty solid when the ssd's don't die 3-6 months later, even with aligning partition to block boundaries and such, trim, etc.  I'd love to have one single encrypted partitions I can use volumes within for the os mounts, btrfs and zfs in theory do most of this now. How well is really the question... Commentary appreciated! -mb --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - plug-disc...@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

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