Re: New laptop: need advice on choice of file system types
Tom Browder wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:43 AM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> ...
> > If you want to experiment, having root on ext4 and /home on ZFS
> > is pretty easy to accomplish.
>
> Dan, I'm not trying to be obtuse, but when you say "experiment," do
> you mean taking it for a ride like a new car where one has to learn
> new controls in a reliable vehicle, or flying in a local home-built
> experimental aircraft? ;-D
ZFS is like learning to drive an 18-wheel truck after you have
lots of experience in cargo vans: you're certain that it can do
all sorts of things very reliably, and if you mess it up, you
will feel that it's entirely your own fault for not reading
and/or getting good advice first.
E.g.: when you set up an ext4fs on a laptop, you trust that mkfs
has, if not optimal defaults, certainly reasonable defaults.
"zfs create" has reasonable defaults, but the prerequisite
"zpool create" does not. Read carefully, and figure out what
ashift setting you want before you run anything.
-dsr-
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