• froztbyte@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    don’t worry about losing yourself though - everything defaults to ext4 and the ubuntu devs have pinkypromised that it’s no longer totally awful dogshit that you regretfully notice only after some time and you’ve loaded significant data onto the system

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        1 year ago

        it’s fine and I use it for extremely performance-focused (see: linux gaming) and embedded systems, but LVM+ext4 is generally a better idea and I use ZFS for systems where extreme reliability and storage flexibility are important (so just my NAS machine really)

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          1 year ago

          it irks me that linux-zfs still has no good native encryption outcome. I had to do zfs on multiple mdraid mirrors, but ugh. that you directly lose out on the zfs insight into block device health there… big sad

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        1 year ago

        my response is halfway partly a shitpost (but only very partly)

        if you’re a general user, it’s probably fine. if you’re someone who cares about specific properties of things, it’s probably less than ideal and something else would suit you better - but you’d probably already know that

        some details: ext2 and ext3 had a lot of journal-damage/restoration issues, along with fairly severe density issues over much longer term use. the design characteristics also didn’t lend itself well to higher performance (and this started showing a lot as the SSD age came around). ext4 has improved somewhat on the first and third parts, and soooorta has dealt with the second if you squint