Re: Alternative FS OS Installs (btrfs, zfs)

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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: Main PLUG discussion list, Mike Butash
Subject: Re: Alternative FS OS Installs (btrfs, zfs)
So far btrfs has been treating my server very nicely

On Dec 3, 2016 12:22 PM, "Michael Butash" <> wrote:

> Anyone using "alternative" file system methods like btrfs or zfs to boot
> with? Nothing seems too native, but can be made to work it seems, just
> wondering if this is one of those "should do" vs. "can do".
>
> The notion of something that can do raid, encryption, volume management,
> and snapshot features is attractive, but I've always layered mdraid, luks
> encryption, lvm, then ext atop that. This has been pretty solid when the
> ssd's don't die 3-6 months later, even with aligning partition to block
> boundaries and such, trim, etc. I'd love to have one single encrypted
> partitions I can use volumes within for the os mounts, btrfs and zfs in
> theory do most of this now.
>
> How well is really the question...
>
> Commentary appreciated!
>
> -mb
>
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