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  • Well that’s good to know because I had some terrible luck with it about a decade ago. Although I don’t think I would go back to windows, I just don’t need it for work anymore and it’s become far too complex.

    I’ve also had pretty bad luck with BTRFS though, although it seems to have improved a lot in the past 3 years that I’ve been using it.

    ZFS would be good but having to rebuild the kernel module is a pain in the ass because when it fails to build you’re unbootable (on root). I also don’t like how clones are dependant on parents, requires a lot of forethought when you’re trying to create a reproducible build on eg Gentoo.


  • I gotcha:

    • Btrfs
      • BTree File System
        • A Copy on White file system that supports snapshots, supported mostly by
    • ZFS
      • Zetabyte File System
        • Copy on Write File System. Less flexible than BTRFS but generally more robust and stable. Better compression in my experience than BTRFS. Out of Kernel Linux support and native FreeBSD.
    • HFS+
      • what Mac uses, I have no clue about this. some Copy on Write stuff.
    • NTFS
      • Windows File System
      • From what I know, no compression or COW
      • In my experience less stable than ext4/ZFS but maybe it’s better nowadays.