[streb-lo]

As someone who uses a rolling release, I use btrfs because I don't want to deal with keeping ZFS up to date.

It's been really good for me. And btrbk is the best backup solution I've had on Linux, btrfs send/receive is a lot faster than rsync even when sending non-incremental snapshots.

[kccqzy]

Same here: I use a rolling release and btrfs. Personally I really enjoy btrfs's snapshot feature. Most of the time when I need backups it's not because of a hardware failure but because of a fat finger mistake where I rm'ed a file I need. Periodic snapshots completely solved that problem for me.

(Of course, backing up to another disk is absolutely still needed, but you probably need it less than you think.)

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Depends on the rolling release; some distros specifically provide a kernel package that is still rolling, but is also always the latest version compatible with ZFS.

[matja]

> I don't want to deal with keeping ZFS up to date

That's what DKMS is for, which most distros use for ZFS. Install and forget.

[streb-lo]

I think the larger issue is that openzfs doesn't move in sync with the kernel so you have to check https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openzfs/zfs/master/META to make sure you can actually upgrade each time. On a rolling distro this is a pretty common breakage AFAIK. It's not the end of the world, but it is annoying.