[panick21_]

There is this myth out there that ZFS is not for desktop/laptop. I have no idea why this is. There is no reason for that thinking. The developers of ZFS were using ZFS on desktop literally before it was finished, it was always intend to do both desktop and servers.

Its just that Solaris and FreeBSD systems were primary servers. If ZFS is the best file system, why not just use it?

I would really like to use native encrypted ZFS and then to encrypted backups with 'zfs send'. I would like good check sums, snapshots and all the features of ZFS.

Its simply overall the best system, I don't think there is really series competition. And the FS is one of the single most important parts of a OS. ZFS could be a major reason why people move to PopOS.

[Bayart]

What myth ? ZFS is significantly slower than run-off-the-mill file systems (namely ext4) on small file random r/w IOPS. Which makes sense because it's made for throughput and redundancy, not latency.

It's a pretty shit file system for a single OS or a software development drive, unless you really need snapshots (you don't).

ZFS is made for big arrays of drives with lots of RAM. If that's not your use case, you're just wasting time and energy for the sake of it.

[vermaden]

Yeah. ZFS is great for single disks for laptops.

With ZFS Boot Environments you are bulletproof on upgrades and major changes.

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