I thought I'd read there was some native encryption in btrfs
added at some point, but seems they indicate to just continue to
use luks here too. All in all, I'm trying to remove these
"layers", otherwise I'm pretty good with just sticking to my
current mechanisms. This is what they seem to indicate doing, but
now I still need either efi or grub partitions again. Ugh.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#Creating_btrfs_subvolumes
Encryption is a big component for me, with raid and volume
management secondary. Simplicity would be nice, but manageable
complexity would be nice as well, as this has worked for me for the
past 10 years.
The whole gpt thing even with a regular sata ssd I just simply could
not get to work with arch, which was a bit disappointing. I really
want to make arch work, it always sounds great, but I've never made
it work for me long enough I haven't gotten annoyed with some form
of brokenness too.
Maybe I'll just stick to mbr+mdadm/luks/lvm/ext4, still seems the
best, most reliable thing going as far as linux is concerned.
-mb
On 12/04/2016 04:22 PM, Kevin Fries
wrote:
I have tried both, and the built in nature of
BTRFS has sold me over ZFS. Both worked great for me, but BTRFS
is batteries included. That being said, I pretty much
exclusively use Arch which tends to have much more current
everything than Ubuntu.
Kevin
On Dec 3, 2016 12:22 PM, "Michael
Butash" <mike@butash.net> 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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