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1. pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 05:52:26 JST pistolero

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   @realman543 @iska @m0xee
   
   > ZFS is good. :columbo_smug:
   
   I have seen it. It is a complete shit design. Even if they fixed the Linux bugs, there's no way to fix the rest without a complete redesign. It is probably better if we don't spend all day on arguing ZFS again, see my previous remarks about ZFS; I can (and have) spent days on this before. I do not like ZFS.
   
   > Well I admittedly don't know much about the fossil file system it's manpage says it has active/archive/snapshot.
   
   "Has a few similar features" does not mean it's similar; I have a rifle, you're handing me a blunderbuss. fossil doesn't try to be its own RAID array, for example. Snapshots are achieved by means of a Merkle tree rather than duplicate copies, so you can clone an entire fossil FS by giving it the same root score as the one you want to duplicate, and this takes less than a second, which is why I lost less than a day of work when I hosed my filesystem: I used flfmt with the last known-good root score, and the entire system was back. I type `history $filename` and I get every change made to that file, and I can type this as any user: I don't need to be `root`.
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