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.

  • BCsven
    35·
    5 months ago

    Btrfs is default on OpenSUSE, has worked great for me for 7 years. No issues.

    • Sureito@feddit.de
      13·
      5 months ago

      Same here, but for only 1 year on my main machine and 6 years on my laptop. I looove snapper. It saved my ass so many times

      • BCsven
        9·
        5 months ago

        Yes it is great. For me snapper rollback was an awesome onboarding experience to linux. Being eager to try things I read online for tweaks and general explorarion it brought me back to a working system after some custom kernel compiling gone awry, or deleting the wrong file etc.

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
          10·
          5 months ago

          I’ve been on btrfs for so many years, with nightly backups with restic, so I’ve been dragging my feet on snapper. Finally installed it a couple weeks ago, and while I opened the config, I don’t think I changed anything. It’s worked so well, and the Arch package was so well done, that I’d forgotten I had it installed until a few days later I noticed that it was taking snapshots every time before I installed something. It’s shockingly good, and I don’t understand why btrfs+snapper(+grub-btrfs) isn’t the default on installs now.