c/Libre (Free Software) Megathread (hexbear.net)

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I figured I might as well make it and ask forgiveness rather than permission. garf-troll

For Libre software discussion that doesn't warrant a whole post, FOSS software help, propaganda, whatever you got.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Uh, my fellow hexbears, um, Fedora good! libretion

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Currently reading up on ZFS right now.

Pro:

COW multi-paradigm filesystem that has been battle tested for decades.
snapshots compression datasets vdevs pools all 9 yards

Con:

No Hibernation because your pool will eat shit and die
No swap partition (fine because I can use ZRAM)
stuck on LTS kernel releases (fine because 6.12 has sched_ext)
hard to install and set up (I'm using NixOS anyway)

I was a btrfs user before but I want to send zfs snapshots directly rather than relying on something like Borg backup (good program but zfs is on a lower level that I want)

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