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    [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Unless the drive gets corrupted or infected with malware, you can just load a previous snapshot. That's much faster and easier than reinstalling.

    [–] stoy@lemmy.zip -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Snapshot as in a VM?

    Most people run their OS on physical hardware.

    [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Btrfs has snapshots. They can be created instantly and don't use any extra space until the files are changed.

    [–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Ah, yeah, I have read about that, I do feel a bir hesitant to use BTRFS so I didn't think about that.

    The Linux machines I have worked with all ran ext3/4 or xfs.

    To be completely fair, I never gave BTRFS a proper chance, at first because it felt too new and unstable when I heard about it, and later I heard that it was developed by Facebook and let my distaste for that company color my perceptions of btrfs.

    But I just checked the wikipedia article and saw that plenty of reputable oranizations have worked on btrfs, so I guess I'll get it a go when I build a NAS....

    Thanks for reminding me of it, I may get set in my ways from time to time but I do genuinely try to learn and change my way of thinking.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

    I wouldn't use it for a NAS. You want ZFS for that.

    Btrfs is good for small setups with either single or dual disks.

    [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

    Just don't use RAID 5 or 6, it's still under development and not ready for use yet.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

    You can run your desktop inside of a VM with the GPU and USB PCIe devices passed though.

    However, I think they are talking about btrfs