Thanks for all the answers!
I think I'll stick with ext4 for my machines for a bit longer, still. I find the idea of snapshots and compression interesting, but without proper space management by the filesystem it just seems like a way to hit troubles.
I do wish they added data checksums to ext4. If something gets me onto btrfs, it'll be that.
P.s.: As an aside I also have a 4tb*3 raidz on zfs and although it works nicely, performance could be a bit better, and god help you if you try to use zfs on a 32bit system --- it tries to work then fails miserably. I use these disks to backup other machines and for 32-bit machines I have to backup them over the network instead.
I think I'll stick with ext4 for my machines for a bit longer, still. I find the idea of snapshots and compression interesting, but without proper space management by the filesystem it just seems like a way to hit troubles.
I do wish they added data checksums to ext4. If something gets me onto btrfs, it'll be that.
P.s.: As an aside I also have a 4tb*3 raidz on zfs and although it works nicely, performance could be a bit better, and god help you if you try to use zfs on a 32bit system --- it tries to work then fails miserably. I use these disks to backup other machines and for 32-bit machines I have to backup them over the network instead.
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