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
So you never had a disk die complete or partially or a disk delivering wrong data?
Lucky you. 👍
I still prefer #ZFS with redundancy and checksums for everything. ZFS saved me from all of the above, several times over the last 10+ years.

@jaxu @Anachron hell, I’ve never had a drive fail on me, but #zfs still saved my bacon with a restore from a recent snapshot when I deleted (the otherwise only copy of) a bunch of work with an errant command

@ivan @jaxu

I use regulary backups to store my data both locally on another drive and on a cloud storage for all my primary devices (except phones, for now).

I don't know how useful those checksums are if you have to fear for corruption due to issues in the implementention, see the recent openzfs problem.

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zfs isn't about solving for backups. If you use zfs and your data is important, you should still have backups (zfs can help facilitate implement of a back up process). zfs is for making sure your data isn't corrupted and you can quickly fix, restore, and move your data in a way that gives more confidence that the data is what you intend it to be when want you use it.

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