6/18/2023 0 Comments Openzfs 2.0 debian![]() ![]() There are an array of flaws with the tools but, despite that, they are unbelievable powerful and you can do things in NixOS you can't dream of doing elsewhere, and it makes things like using OpenZFS or whatever pretty easy and simple. And it makes some thing far more difficult than that, nearly trivial. But only once you know what you're doing. But that's just the reality: it's an extremely powerful tool that has many rough edges. ![]() Saying it's "the easiest distro to use" is a complete joke, and I wish fellow NixOS users didn't have some weird propensity to practically lie about how good it is on that front. I say this as someone who has been a NixOS developer and user for like, ~7 years and who apparently(?!) has over 1,000 commits to the tree now, too. Trying to actually sit down at a terminal and sell unconvinced people on it opened my eyes quite a bit. It's good, but lying about what it is and isn't is a good way to burn peoples faith. I wanted to say "as someone who tends to follow the unix philosophy" and realized the irony of saying that regarding ZFS. That said, I generally agree with you in that do one thing and do it well is a laudable design goal. However, I also am very excited about encrypted ZFS for one main reason: backups. ZFS is absolutely amazing to use as a home NAS that does daily (or more) snapshots and then nightly differential syncs to a second location. In the past I had to run all my own infrastructure to do this, as the data was in the clear.
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