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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree (git.kernel.org)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

ZFS is boss. I'm already using it for storage. Need to learn how to use it for /.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not recommended for single-disk root partitions. This is a mistake I've made myself. Recovery tools are non-existant on ZFS so non-parity setups are inherently risky. If you have root setup on at least raidz1 with at least 2 disks you are fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Personally I wouldn't consider recovery as an option at all because it could easily be unavailable because the SSD failed. Instead, I tend to add a mirror drive and/or keep frequent backups where that's not possible. So from that perspective ZFS is equivalent to Ext4, which I currently use. I'd prefer ZFS over it for it's data verification, snapshotting and datasets features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've successfully recovered data from ext4 on a broken drive on one occasion. I agree it would have been better to have backups so lesson learned I suppose. Still if I'd been on ZFS root with no mirror I'd have been even more SOL