[Discuss] Debian 11 -> 12

[Kent Borg]

On 5/22/24 12:51, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Kent Borg wrote:
>> 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?
> You can't! They are read only. Great for consistent backups.

Sensible of ZFS.

But I thought btrfs *did* allow CoW snapshots, and nested snapshots, and 
it seemed to me plenty of other footguns. I've never played with it, the 
fact that for the longest time btrfs' fsck didn't exist or was 
considered experimental or some such, was one of the things that always 
scared me off.


-kb, the Kent who is scared of some things.