btrfs 😬 i’ve only trusted zfs with my data

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I tried zfs, but it seemed to be a memory hog. Makes sense for servers.

It uses all available memory (arc) but purges it out under memory pressure

Modern btrfs is fine (more likely to catch a hardware error than lose your data). It was bad like a decade ago but…

thats good to know, i’ve heard bad stories in the past