• pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
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    3 months ago

    Yeah. I would not for example install ZFS to a laptop. It’s just not great there, and it doesn’t like things such as sudden power failure, and it uses kind of a lot of memory…

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      3 months ago

      Meanwhile BTRFS provides me with snapshots and rollbacks that are a useful when I’m messing with the system. And subvolumes bring a lot of flexibility for containers and general management.

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        3 months ago

        For sure. I would say if you run a distro like Arch, using it without cow filesystem and snapshots is not a good idea… You can even integrate snapshots with pacman and bootloader.

        I’ve been running nixos for so long, that I don’t really need snapshots. You can always boot to the previous state if needed.

        If you write software and run tests against a database, I’d avoid having the docker volumes on btrfs pool. The performance is not great.