You investigate Btrfs. You read the documentation and many blog posts about it.It has its advantages. It gives you value. Structure.Then you check some installation guides: No. You don’t have to be a magician to install Debian on Btrfs.The Debian installer can do it for you. The installer creates a perfectly usable Btrfs filesystem.You can…
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A major system upgrade.A risky configuration change.Testing a new application. On traditional filesystems, recovery usually means restoring from backups.Sometimes it requires reinstalling the system entirely. OpenZFS provides tools for managing risk.Snapshots, dataset properties, compression, and encryption can be managed directly by the filesystem. OpenZFS is more than a filesystem.It is a filesystem and volume manager designed to simplify storage administration.
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