Re: to lvm or not lvm is my dillema
Ron via Ale <[email protected]>
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Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale wrote on 2026-01-01 13:44: > Does it make sense to install LVM ? There have been some solid answers already, so I'll add the option to use ZFS - not for boot but for /home at least. > What does it get me ? ZFS has some really great features - snapshots, send / receive features for duplicating data to a backup machine that's way, way better than anything else I can think of: Only changed blocks get sent. Move a multi GB file to another folder? Then rsync sends a whole new copy. ZFS just updates the meta data. Add a few bytes to a multi GB file? ZFS just sends the changed blocks. ZFS can self-heal corrupt data if redundancy is enabled (like RAID 1): read a block, calculate its checksum, if mismatch read other copy of data, calculate checksum, if valid send to user and replace bad copy, if both copies bad - warn user. There are a *lot* of nifty features, it's at least worth investigating as an option. _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list [email protected] https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo