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sidkshatriyayesterday at 4:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

you can use snapper + btrfs and the end result is like `bectl`. However it not as simple/integrated as ZFS Boot environments on FreeBSD


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krylonyesterday at 4:46 PM

On openSUSE Tumbleweed, it is. Each Upgrade creates two snapshots, one before, one after, and if anything goes wrong, I can boot into a snapshot where the world was still in order.

I have a higher opinion of ZFS than I do of btrfs, but FWIW snapper+btrfs has worked well for me on openSUSE Tumbleweed for ten years now, too.

shrubbleyesterday at 4:39 PM

The btrfs code quality seems less than ZFS, based on the reports I have read.

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