[j1elo]

Two things I like from it, as per what I've read so far:

* Checksumming

* As you mention, easy maintenance

* Snapshots and how useful they are for backups

In the end what I value is stuff that works reliably, doesn't get in the way, and requiring minimal supervision. And in the particular case of FS, I'd like to adopt a system that helps avoid bitrot in my data.

Could you drop some names that you would consider as good alternatives of ZFS?

[cogman10]

For close to ZFS feature parity but much younger, BTRFS.

Otherwise it's sort of figuring out what features you want to drop. XFS and ext4 are probably where I'd look for a single disk hard drive.

Like I said, you could do ZFS, but definitely feels a bit like overkill. Setting up a vdev with one disk just to get snapshots and checksums seems like a lot.