mcc"Due to potential legal incompatibilities between the CDDL and GPL, despite both being OSI-approved free software licenses which comply with DFSG, ZFS development is not supported by the Linux kernel"
✧✦Catherine✦✧@mcc been that way for decades now
@whitequark I have a new hard drive I intend to use primarily for backup and I am currently considering BTRFS or ZFS for the Linux part instead of ext4 (because I hear they can do some thing of storing extra error-checking data to protect against physical disk corruption). In your view, if I intend to use mainline Debian indefinitely, will BTRFS, ZFS, both, or neither give me the least pain getting things working?
@whitequark A few people are commenting on BTRFS reliability problems which is weird because I thought the whole point was to be "the more reliable fs". Debian's wiki links to this bewildering compatibility table that looks like a bunch of stuff I don't care about (the only features I care about are reliability, and some of zfs's auto-backup stuff sounded compelling) but the weird "mostly ok" line around defragmentation/autodefragmentation worries me a little https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/Status.html
keithzg@whitequark @mcc Honestly the only times I have had problems with BTRFS have been when I have done deeply silly things, and even then it's always been recoverable. Been running some big storage pools of slow-spinning rust for years and no trouble. And I have *terrible* luck!