Filesystem Development Considerations
Considerations for default file system choice for Kicksecure.
Introduction[edit]
Wanted Feature[edit]
- rollback
- alternative?
apt-rollback
timeshift
btrfs[edit]
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
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
zfs[edit]
stratis is not in Debian afaik.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=934303
But there's some stuff about "plain" 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.
xfs[edit]
todo
no de-duplication?
Footnotes[edit]
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