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by asveikau 2341 days ago
I don't think I am a zealot, nor a heavy user, but I use it on 1 machine at home (an NFS server running FreeBSD, which I have clients for elsewhere in my house). I came to this idea when I saw some data loss on some magnetic disks in my house, and repairing or even assessing the level of damage was difficult.

My experience is that it's pretty good. The tooling does what it says without a lot of drama. I can scrub while the system is in use and don't notice it mostly. I have seen some small corruptions that it was able to flag for me with specific filenames and fix. Snapshotting and send/receive is also very handy.

I heard some people say they don't like to use it under heavy load. That seems reasonable to me. You're paying costs to get the integrity piece. So it's not for every use or every user. It is very good at what it does, however.

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Same with me. I just figured out at some point, 10 years ago, that it is nice to have snapshots on root disk. And figured out FreeBSD is supporting ZFS. Tryed it, loved it, used it. The ZFS on linux was destabilized in latest versions (`ls /.zfs/snapshots`) and they blew it considerably by adding it to systemd (I need to reboot fedora multiple times before it boots ever since), but at least I know that my data are not lost (unlike btrfs, had two major crashes in two years). Quite frankly I'll rather wait for Raisser to get out of jail than use btrfs again. Anyway, I bet on Hammer2.