cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/9319044

Hey,

I am planning to implement authenticated boot inspired from Pid Eins’ blog. I’ll be using pam mount for /home/user. I need to check integrity of all partitions.

I have been using luks+ext4 till now. I am hesistant hesitant to switch to zfs/btrfs, afraid I might fuck up. A while back I accidently purged ‘/’ trying out timeshift which was my fault.

Should I use zfs/btrfs for /home/user? As for root, I’m considering luks+(zfs/btrfs) to be restorable to blank state.

  • hellvolution@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    I’m running ext2/ext3/ext4 since 2002(?)… Never had a problem! But I’ve lost lots of data using reiser4, xfs & xfs, specially when blackout happens. If you don’t have a no-break/not using a notebook, and you have important data for yourself, I’d stick with ext4. I actually didn’t notice thaaaat much of performance boost, when using fast HDDs, SSDs & Nvme between any of these formats!