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   Stefano Marinelli (stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 03:45:32 JST Stefano Marinelli

   OpenSUSE Tumbleweed doesn’t enable automatic snapshots in the home directories by default. I enabled them myself and noticed that, from time to time, the computer would completely freeze.
   After some research, I discovered that Btrfs has this issue when quotas are enabled. I disabled quotas and the problem went away - although now the system probably doesn't know how much space each snapshot takes.

   FreeBSD on my (old) desktop and ZFS - any snapshots I want, on much older (2018) and more limited hardware - and I’ve never seen anything like that happen.

   #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Linux #openSUSE

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 03:45:27 JST feld

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     • Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
     @stefano @Natanox isn't using anything other than a mirrored volume with BTRFS considered experimental?
     
     
     https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid56-status-and-recommended-practices
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     Stefano Marinelli (stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 03:45:29 JST Stefano Marinelli

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     • Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

     @Natanox I think the reason is the licensing "problem". Also, it "seems" more versatile - you can mix disk types, change RAID levels, etc. But in my eyes, it never became truly stable. I use it when needed, but I'm cautious 🙂

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     Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 (natanox@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 03:45:31 JST Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

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     @stefano Btrfs indeed still does come with some shortcomings. I do wonder why it still became more popular than ZFS except for the sole reason ZFS isn't in the kernel by default due to licensing reasons.

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     Stefano Marinelli (stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 03:47:59 JST Stefano Marinelli

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     • Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
     • feld

     @feld @Natanox I've never used it in raid5/6 mode. But sometimes I started with two drives, then decided to perform a three-way mirror, then go back to single, stripe, etc.

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