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[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I looked at it, it seemed mostly vanilla, had good servers, didn't have defederation drama like lemmy.world, thought it's cool.

I'd be open to move to a "leftist" lemmy instance, but as a staunch anarchist I'm not really compatible with lemmygrad or hexbear.

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wouldn't be for backing up, just for the storage to last longer if one drive fails.

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you, that makes sense.

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah I'll always do backups. When I have the money I probably will buy another drive and try to do RAID1 on the two, just to be sure. But I do want them to last as much as possible.

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hey, thanks for the help. Can you elaborate on what kind of issues BTRFS gave you? What caused them, too?

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't plan on installing Windows at all. The only thing I'd do in my boot drive is have a separate home partition, I won't really do anything else though. Did the corruption you experience happened just on its own? Or was it something you did?

 

Hello everyone. I'm going to build a new PC soon and I'm trying to maximize its reliability all I can. I'm using Debian Bookworm. I have a 1TB M2 SSD to boot on and a 4TB SATA SSD for storage. My goal is for the computer to last at least 10 years. It's for personal use and work, playing games, making games, programming, drawing, 3d modelling etc.

I've been reading on filesystems and it seems like the best ones to preserve data if anything is lost or corrupted or went through a power outage are BTRFS and ZFS. However I've also read they have stability issues, unlike Ext4. It seems like a tradeoff then?

I've read that most of BTRFS's stability issues come from trying to do RAID5/6 on it, which I'll never do. Is everything else good enough? ZFS's stability issues seem to mostly come from it having out-of-tree kernel modules, but how much of a problem is this in real-life use?

So far I've been thinking of using BTRFS for the boot drive and ZFS for the storage drive. But maybe it's better to use BTRFS for both? I'll of course keep backups but I would still like to ensure I'll have to deal with stuff breaking as little as possible.

Thank you in advance for the advice.

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's dishonest to paint that incident as "plenty of drama". It was a decision most of the community agreed to and those who didn't made a fork. I don't think anyone did anything wrong in that. Compare it to Canonical forcing it's official flavors to break flatpaks and appimages. I think the severity is very different.

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's the thing with 100% community backed distros. There's never any drama, there's never any controversial decisions, the most you'll hear of is some leader figure being replaced or not treating others well. Honestly it's what Linux should be in the first place.

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I hadn't thought of it that way, it makes sense. Thank you for the nice explanation.

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I mean, in my eyes Canonical is already evil. SUSE is pretty nice right now, but like I said, them being nice is nothing but a luxury. There's no guarantee it wont happen, and you could probably argue it's fated to happen eventually.

[–] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any tips for when I do switch, by the way?

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