Call me old-fashioned but with my #ext4+#luks+#lvm setup I never had issues or lost data.

There are a lot of interesting new options available (#bcachefs, #zfs, #btrfs, etc), but I prefer stability and a piece of mind.

@Anachron I'm running all my clients on #btrfs since a few years now and also hadn't one go down, even with hard resetting devices sometimes 👌🏼

I like the simplicity of putting the btrfs directly onto the LUKS container and doing all the "partitioning" by using subvolumes instead of fiddling around with lvm.✌🏼
Also I don't have decide which partition gets how much space this way 🤗

@Anachron But in the end: Usually it's always the devil you know, everyone feels the most comfortable with 🙃

@9Lukas5

that's very nice, I have to admit. I had to resize my root partition on my LVM setup because I had to less and such had to resize two filesystems and two lvm volumes in order to fix it.

However, all went well and it was just a matter of around 15 minutes, so not such a big of a deal.

I think it's hard to beat EXT4 when it comes to stability and reliability. It's beyond well proven at this point.

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That's the strength of EXT4. It's probably all that most people need. But eventually, something with more conveniences and features will be as stable and reliable. I hope that thing is

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@ericjmorey @9Lukas5

Totally agreed! I think bcachefs is the most possible replacement for my ext4 setup, but that will still take a long time.

I regulary backup my data (seperating OS, configs and user data) and copy these backups to other locations.

This is way more resilant than hoping the drive wont die or a bitrot will be detected and fixable by the filesystem itself.

I have to admit that it would be nice if that will be the case, I'm just very cautious by nature when it comed to tech.

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