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zfs is great. i wanted to copy my bitcoin node to external drive but didn’t want to shut it off during the copy… so i shut down my node, did a snapshot of the drive (instant), then started it again.

#zfs snapshots keep a readonly, immutable state of the drive in that moment with very little overhead. So my zaps can keep working while i clone the node (snapshots are just symlinks on the drive). Very slick.

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Aida 10mo ago

ZFS is resource hungry and it really needs a ECC ram, but it is almost a miracle file system. I been using it for almost 15 years now and it is the most reliable and versatile file system I worked with.

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