cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/9319044

Hey,

I am planning to implement authenticated boot inspired from Pid Eins’ blog. I’ll be using pam mount for /home/user. I need to check integrity of all partitions.

I have been using luks+ext4 till now. I am hesistant hesitant to switch to zfs/btrfs, afraid I might fuck up. A while back I accidently purged ‘/’ trying out timeshift which was my fault.

Should I use zfs/btrfs for /home/user? As for root, I’m considering luks+(zfs/btrfs) to be restorable to blank state.

  • @TCB13English
    3•5 months ago

    Btrfs will normally won’t get corrupted unless you have a hardware issue. It uses cow so writes can never be half competed. If you do manage to get corruption you can use btrfs check.

    From my experience BTRFS is way more reliable against hardware failure then Ext4 ever was. Ext* filesystems tend to go corrupt on the first and smallest power loss or hardware failure.