Comment by yjftsjthsd-h
7 months ago
A few years ago, I used BTRFS on a laptop. Single disk, no RAID of any kind, OpenSUSE (which favored BTRFS, so I expected it to be as well supported as could be had), nothing fancy. After losing the root filesystem twice, I decided that maybe I shouldn't trust BTRFS. Since then, I've been told that it's totally better now, that all the problems are with bad RAID setups, and it's safe and won't lose my data. Anyways, as I type this from a laptop running on ZFS, I remain somewhat cautious.
> Since then, I've been told that it's totally better now
I've read through some bug reports, and I assure you that BTRFS remains a horror show.
Saying that comments from the dev team "don't inspire confidence" is putting it mildly.
ZFS is the diametric opposite of this, where blog posts from the team working on it made me realise that they're moving the state of the art into new territory.
I really want to try bcachefs, I wonder if anyone has used it (with encryption, and if their encryption supports plausible deniability or not).
BTW, is ZFS on Linux good now?
Bcachfs has been removed from Linux.
https://forums.truenas.com/t/bcachefs-dropped-from-linux-6-1...
ZFS is an install option on Ubuntu. Running it taints the kernel.
ZFS on linux native encryption is kinda unmaintained at this point, so I would not recommend it.