Sam to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoWhat file system do you use and why?message-square52fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down13
arrow-up174arrow-down1message-squareWhat file system do you use and why?Sam to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-square@Dax87@forum.stellarcastle.netlinkfedilinkEnglish18•1 year agoBtrfs because I’ve had constant issues with zfs in multiple different times. Everyone praises zfs so I’m sure it’s something I’m missing, but I’ve had very little issue with btrfs, other than it’s incomplete feature set.
minus-squarepoVoqlinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoIts mostly that due to licensing issues it can’t be included in the Linux kernel like btrfs and thus is prone to breaking at very in-opportune times. IMHO both are fine, but btrfs is more hassle free and good enough ™ for hobby self-hosters.
minus-squarezbeckerlinkfedilink1•1 year ago@vext01 @sifrmoja What do you mean by kernel taint? I’ve never bothered with zfs…
Btrfs because I’ve had constant issues with zfs in multiple different times.
Everyone praises zfs so I’m sure it’s something I’m missing, but I’ve had very little issue with btrfs, other than it’s incomplete feature set.
What kind of issues?
Its mostly that due to licensing issues it can’t be included in the Linux kernel like btrfs and thus is prone to breaking at very in-opportune times.
IMHO both are fine, but btrfs is more hassle free and good enough ™ for hobby self-hosters.
@poVoq @vext01 so no issues.
He’s talking about kernel taint. That is annoying in Linux.
@vext01 @sifrmoja
What do you mean by kernel taint?
I’ve never bothered with zfs…