@nixCraft I've always been using ext4, but a few months ago I saw someone's post here (I won't be able to find it) about how he was able to restore all his data from a ZFS backup after his system SSD was toasted.
And here I am, doing crappy manual backups (whenever I don't forget about it). I've been eyeing ZFS ever since then, but I don't know how these file systems compare to each other in performance (especially when it's encrypted). Is gaming still an option with all those fancy features?
@nixCraft crtime is actually written in ext4 but for some reason it's not easily accessible. It's available through xstat attributes fetched via debugfs:
debugfs -R 'stat <inode_number>' DEVICE
This allows extra cursed shit like a an encrypted & RAID-5 running NTFS - Tho that won't be useable by anything but Linix and I disrecommend it almost as hard as mixing hardware RAID controllers and/or dmraid with ZFS.
@nixCraft Using btrfs for big and small systems for 10 years now, with zero problems. Stopped using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for new systems because they started to boycott btrfs with RHEL 8. Never looked back.
@nixCraft Fun fact: ReiserFS is created by a convicted killer.
Less fun fact: ReiserFS was removed from the Linux mainline, not because of the "creator is a killer" thing but because it wasn't maintained well.
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