There’s been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list… Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I have never had an issue with ZFS as long as there is a redundant copy. A bad ram might cause an issue but that’s never happened to me. I did have a bad motherboard that corrupted data on write. ZFS threw its hands up but there wasn’t any unfixable corruption

    • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
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      4 months ago

      Me neither, but the risk is there and well documented.

      The point was, ZFS is not great as your normal laptop/workstation filesystem. It kind of requires a certain setup, can be slow in certain kinds of workflows, expects disks of same size and is never available immediately for the latest kernel version. Nowadays you actually can add more disks to a pool, but for a very long time you needed to build a new one. Adding a larger disk to a pool will still not resize it, untill all the disks are replaced.

      It shines with steady and stable raid arrays, which are designed to a certain size and never touched after they are built. I would never use it in my workstation, and this is the point where bcachefs gets interesting.