• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    Thanks for the info. Does ZFS allow for easy snapshotting like btrfs? Or like the stuff in the backend that allows you to do things like, say, edit a filename while the file is open?

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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      20 hours ago

      edit a filename while the file is open?

      that should work on all filesystems on linux, shouldn’t it? linux keeps file handles by inode number, not filename. this is also the reason system updates can happen while everything is running, because replacing the open files is possible too, and the processes that opened it earlier keep seeing the old version of it

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      21 hours ago

      Snapshots like btrfs, yes. But I think every copy-on-write system can do that. But I don’t know about the rest.

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      19 hours ago

      Does ZFS allow for easy snapshotting like btrfs?

      Absolutely

      edit a filename while the file is open

      Any Linux filesystem will do that