[Discuss] Debian 11 -> 12

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 5/22/24 12:07, Steve Litt wrote:
> Unless you're encrypting the root partition, I can't think of any use
> of LVM that can't be done other ways.

That's why I use it. Full disk encryption is a good thing. (Well, /boot 
is still in the clear, so not quite full.)


> I view LVM as yet another layer
> of abstraction and yet another way to lose your data.

Agreed.

The most intriguing btrfs, zfs, etc., feature that I have never played 
with is the ability to do snapshots. But that is also a scary feature, 
allowing me to have parallel universes, each complete in itself? And 
what happens when I get confused (or for some other reason) start making 
changes in more than one CoW snapshot? Frightening amount of power. The 
only think I would trust myself to use it when doing a backup: a 
snapshot is a way to prevent version skew while making the backup. But 
I'm not running a busy server, a little skew as spam comes into my 
laptop isn't going to kill me. I'll risk it for the simplicity.


> I use just plain ext4, and "grow" my partitions by using bind mounts.
>
> I use ext4 instead of ZFS for exactly the reason you state: I'm not
> willing to make the mental and temporal investment.

I think I started using XFS back when ext2 was still the latest and 
greatest of that series and XFS seemed safer, and XFS has been ignorably 
reliable ever since, so I keep using it.


-kb