cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/9319044
Hey,
I am planning to implement authenticated boot inspired from Pid Eins’ blog. I’ll be using pam mount for /home/user. I need to check integrity of all partitions.
I have been using luks+ext4 till now. I am
hesistanthesitant to switch to zfs/btrfs, afraid I might fuck up. A while back I accidently purged ‘/’ trying out timeshift which was my fault.Should I use zfs/btrfs for /home/user? As for root, I’m considering luks+(zfs/btrfs) to be restorable to blank state.
Many many years ago I set up btrfs for the disks I write my backups to with a raid 1 config for them. Unfortunately one of those disks went bad and ended up corrupting the whole array. Makes me wonder if I set it up correctly or not.
Nowadays, I have the following disks in my system set up as btrfs:
It’s going fine, but it feels like I need to manually run a balance every one in a while when the disk fills up.
I also like btrfs-assistant for managing the devices.
Out of interest, since I’ve not used the “recommended partion setup” for any install for a while now, is ext4 still the default on most distros?
I recently installed Nobara Linux on an additional drive, because after 20 years, I wanted to give Linux gaming another shot (works a lot better than I had hopes for, btw), and it defaulted to btrfs. I’ll assume so does Fedora, because I cannot imagine Nobara changed that part over the Fedora base for gaming purposes.
You do know that Steam handles multiple libraries transparently, even on removable drives?
I know they all show up in the same interface and I can move games between drives in the storage interface.
But I don’t want to deal with having to shuffle things around to install a 40GiB game where both drives only have 30GiB free. Or having to remember which of the two drives has a specific game on when I want to find their files.
It also gives a possibly-insignificant speed boost and extra cool points.
Can’t argue with cool points.
Just out of curiosity, did you RAID-1 the metadata as well?
This was ages ago, so I can’t really remember I’m afraid. I think maybe the files themselves were corrupted, not the folder structure, so perhaps? Although I can see that as a thing I forget to do though.