On 2/13/20 06:53, Didar Hossain wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:18:42PM +0100, deloptes wrote: >> Dennis Wicks wrote: >> >>> I have been using xfs but that is based on info >>> from many years ago. >> >> If you have had no issues with xfs, why not use it in the future too? > > I have been using XFS for data on dual HDD (RAID1->LVM->LUKS->XFS) on Debian > Stretch for more than a year, haven't experienced issues yet. OS is on Ext4 on > SDD. I use Urbackup (www.urbackup.org) to backup multiple Windows machines to > this box as well as Samba for simple shares. > > I stayed away from Btrfs after hearing a lot of negative stories. ZFS on > FreeBSD > is probably better if you need that kind of reliability. I am a one man show > currently managing the tech, so I don't really have that kind of mental > bandwidth to learn and setup FreeBSD+ZFS right now. But, you may explore that > path if you have the time.
XFS is excellent, and so also is JFS. Both are old, of commercial origin, and apparently free of significant problems. And ext4 also is unexceptionable. Linux has been the primary OpenZFS target for some time and apparently will continue to be. The version on buster-backports (presently 0.8.2) is stable and not at all hard to install if you are not averse to dipping into the contrib repository. Root on ZFS is a bit hands on, somewhat reminiscent of early versions of Debian, but not really difficult for one disk [1], and I have seen, but not used, a script [2] that purports to do the primary setup for one or more disks. Both finish with a bootable basic Debian system, ready to run tasksel or otherwise install your choice of additional software. Neither addresses dual boot, although it would appear possible to do so with appropriate intervention in the partitioning step. The machine I am using now is dual boot, with Windows 10 on one disk, Debian 10 root-on-zfs on a second, and either selectable from the grub menu. [1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Debian-Buster-Root-on-ZFS [2] https://github.com/hn/debian-buster-zfs-root Regards, Tom Dial > Kind regards, > Didar >
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