This covers obtaining the ISO, connecting to Wi-Fi, partitioning, formatting, mounting, installing, setting up encryption and installing GRUB, in one article. Also includes some tips, like quickly mounting from install medium. Maybe this helps someone.
With btrfs and zfs virtually being neck and neck in terms of capabilities, is there a reason or application where one should be chosen over the other?
I use BTRFS for the Snapper backup/bootable snapshots
BTRFS is included in the kernel and due to licensing issues, ZFS is distributed as a DKMS module that takes forever to build.
Less likely to break when you perform kernel upgrade. (new major version)
Google ZFS licensing and you know why choose btrfs over zfs
Okay, so it came down to a licensing issue rather than one that is technical. I can definitely get behind that as somebody that will always value true open source, even when then the proprietary solution might be the better one in the short term. Something that is open source can only get better.
In the Gentoo wiki it is also mentioned that “While it is true that Btrfs is still considered experimental and is growing in stability, the time when Btrfs will become the default filesystem for Linux systems is getting closer.”. I don’t know how many distros out there use Btrfs by default (never distrohopped), but it seems to become much more widely adopted than zfs.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Btrfs#Features
BTRFS still doesn’t have working RAID 5 or 6, which basically means its not a viable option for home NAS use unless you’re okay with the limitations of RAID-10. Personally I use BTRFS for my system drive and ZFS for my storage pool.