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zfs is great. i wanted to copy my bitcoin node to external drive but didn’t want to shut it off during the copy… so i shut down my node, did a snapshot of the drive (instant), then started it again.

#zfs snapshots keep a readonly, immutable state of the drive in that moment with very little overhead. So my zaps can keep working while i clone the node (snapshots are just symlinks on the drive). Very slick.

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Cpt. Charisma · 57w

It also has phenomenal data integrity and fault tolerance features. If you're not using them already, look into it.

ZFS is resource hungry and it really needs a ECC ram, but it is almost a miracle file system. I been using it for almost 15 years now and it is the most reliable and versatile file system I worked with.

lkraider · 57w

I still prefer my FAT32. The daily defrag routine is my personal meditation time.

is running a node on an external drive & pi superior to running on a dedicated computer ? About to set a node up on a solid laptop that will just run core 24/7 but don't want to bother if an external is the way to go. Thanks for the input, I am learning

Peter Todd · 57w

btrfs is great to exactly that same use-case. I've been running it on my laptops, desktops, and (some) servers for years.

Mike Dilger ☑️ · 57w

I like ZFS best. But it requires Solaris portability layer for linux, which isn't great, and since it's not just built into linux it's easy to get into a state where ZFS isn't working. So I moved to btrfs. Btrfs gives me LONG delay problems, sometimes more than a minute (!) before my editor will ...

Well, that sounds pretty amazing

Priuatus Vir · 57w

zfs + zfsboot and life is good!

Do not do this with your lightning node though, or you will lose funds!