OC for you.
Yeah, I thought those preupdate snapshotters were crazy paranoid freaksโฆ until my first Arch update hahahaha
Iโve wanted to try OpenSuse for a while now. I have a spare laptop that I was planning on installing Gentoo on, but am dreading the antiquated (by todayโs standards) installation process. Maybe Iโll use it for OpenSuse.
YOu can set those pre/post snapshots automatically and not really pay attention. I think OpenSuse does that by default if you install your root on btrfs. They even have an OS version called MicroOS which does a cool thing with snaphosts. Basically if your system does not boot after update it will revert automatically to previous snapshot, or you can pick a snapshot to boot into manually from grub menu. Bit it is quite a different thing than your usual linux distro as it uses read only root FS.
Hmmโฆ itโs complicated since itโs a very opinionated topic. There will be people who like it and there are people who will kill your entire family because you mentioned it :D The benefits depend on what are you using it for. The difference is mainly in features it provides. I am using it mainly for snapshots, subvolumes and raid support. Raid is stable only for jbod, 0, 1 and 10. 5 and 6 are still having issues. Raid is self healing if I am correct. So if there are some checksum errors it will repair stuff from working mirror.
You need to do some research before using it. For example since it is cow FS it is not good for databases or VM images. But you can turn off the QCOW feature for specific directory. The other thing is space usage. Due tyo snapshots and cow feature 'df -h โ will not show exactly correct usage data. You have 'btrfs filesystem df -h โ instead. If you kill up the disk it can be more bothersome to clean it up afterwards.
I would say, try it out and decide yourself. There are definitely videos online that explain it better than I did just now.
