| 6 Mar 2026 |
 Crony Akatsuki | and once I do go for zfs, will contact you to help me get started, seems like you know your stuff | 08:44:01 |
 magic_rb | Btrfs is a reimplementation of zfs | 08:44:09 |
| magic_rb | It supports more than btrfs | 08:44:17 |
| magic_rb | Bear with me here, thing is, if you have zfs everywhere you dont have to context switch and once you start using some of the fancier features of it like zfs send/recv, encryption, raid or zvols, it makes sense to have everywhere... but you do you ofc | 08:45:33 |
| magic_rb | Ofc, message away | 08:45:41 |
| Crony Akatsuki | for me a filesystem ( atleast for now ) is just there to keep my files, I don't do anything fancy with it. Tho that will prob change in the future but has been this way for the past 7 years | 08:46:43 |
| magic_rb | Give it time :p | 08:47:26 |
| Crony Akatsuki | I just use restic to backup my important files to a separate btrfs 128gb drive ( my backups are like 2gb ) and backblaze b2 bucket | 08:48:15 |
| magic_rb | Tbh same, im planning to look into a more zfs native solution, but for now havent | 08:48:55 |
| Crony Akatsuki | I might go ahead and reformat my backup drive and my games drive with zfs to test it out, and then move my main nvme to zfs also slowly | 08:49:37 |
| Crony Akatsuki | I do think my vps's just use ext4 with lvm | 08:49:59 |
| magic_rb | Ill send you some stuff, formatting as zfs isnt a fire and forget. You gotta make the right choices or youll regret it later | 08:50:41 |
| Crony Akatsuki | I also just backup them to a backblaze bucket | 08:50:46 |
| magic_rb | Ive got a pretty tuned setup at work, ill share once at a computer. (I just woke up) | 08:51:05 |
 focu5 | zfs snapshot and backup to a separate pool off machine is why I have my laptop using zfs even though it's 1 drive and doesn't have the error detection let alone correction | 08:51:05 |
| Crony Akatsuki | sure, tho will prob reformat tomorrow, since I got work in couple hours ( 10 hours shift + hour commute ) | 08:51:19 |
| focu5 | also zfs encryption | 08:51:21 |
| focu5 | it's just nice | 08:51:22 |
| magic_rb | Even on a single disk, you gain checksumming. Ext4 will happily give you corrupted data, zfs wont | 08:51:53 |
| magic_rb | And you could still enable data redundancy even on a single disk | 08:52:05 |
| magic_rb | Dont use that one personally. I always put zfs on top of LUKS | 08:52:21 |
| Crony Akatsuki | I love luks encryption + tpm2 unlock on my desktop | 08:53:12 |
| focu5 | it's been seamless, i have my nas root dataset passkey encrypted and other datasets encrypted by file keys that are in the root dataset | 08:53:24 |
| focu5 | * it's been seamless, i have my nas root dataset passkey encrypted and other pool datasets encrypted by file keys that are in the root dataset | 08:53:34 |
| focu5 | * it's been seamless, i have my nas root dataset password prompt encrypted and other pool datasets encrypted by file keys that are in the root dataset | 08:53:49 |
| magic_rb | I dont use it for 2 reasons:
- Metadata leaks
- LUKS has been independently audited, zfs has not
| 08:54:06 |
| Crony Akatsuki | that reminds me, gotta setup secure boot on my desktop again after the reinstall | 08:55:01 |
| focu5 |
- I am aware and leaking dataset properties and the name is fine
- Didn't know but it should be mostly fine? I don't have too many sensitive things
| 08:55:13 |
| focu5 | it does make snapshotting and backup easier if the encryption is a part of zfs | 08:56:07 |
| magic_rb | True, i just am too paranoid ig :) | 08:56:41 |
