• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    The two biggest benefits are that it’s basically a finished implementation of btrfs (see data corruption in large pools and raid 5 and 6), as well as being able to encrypt and compress at the same time.

    Plus, and I don’t know if this is a ZFS-specific thing, being able to group disks into VDevs and not just into one big raid.

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      11 days ago

      Thanks for the info. Does ZFS allow for easy snapshotting like btrfs? Or like the stuff in the backend that allows you to do things like, say, edit a filename while the file is open?

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        11 days ago

        Does ZFS allow for easy snapshotting like btrfs?

        Absolutely

        edit a filename while the file is open

        Any Linux filesystem will do that