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Considerations for default file system choice for Kicksecure.

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Documentation for this is incomplete. Contributions are happily considered! See this for potential alternatives.

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• rollback
  • alternative?
    • https://serverfault.com/a/307871
    • https://rsnapshot.org/?

apt-rollback

timeshift

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Btrfs has been deprecated by redhat.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/

default in openSUSE

https://microos.opensuse.org/

used by Facebook

https://wiki.debian.org/Btrfs good since buster

https://forums.kicksecure.com/t/use-btrfs-as-the-default-journaling-file-system/626

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stratis is not in Debian afaik.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=934303

But there's some stuff about "plain" ZFS.

https://wiki.debian.org/ZFS

Says ZFS is Oracle and I am not amazed by how Oracle maintains VirtualBox.

Also ZFS is not going to be mainlined in Linux due to licensing issues.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/13/zfs_linux/

https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/zfs-linux

DKMS...

There is also OpenZFS but apparently not in Debian.

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todo

no de-duplication?

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Kicksecure is an Implementation of the Securing Debian Manual. This chapter has been inspired by: Securing Debian Manual, chapter Selecting the appropriate file systems

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