On: Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody ...

[caymanjim]

Do people really use copy-on-write filesystems though? I mean it'd be great if that were a default, but I rarely encounter them, and when I do, it's only because someone intentionally set it up that way. In 30+ years of using Unix systems, I can't even definitively recall one of them having a copy-on-write filesystem in place. Which is insane considering I used VAX/VMS systems before that and it was standard there.

[r3trohack3r → caymanjim]

FreeBSD uses ZFS by default, which is copy on write post-snapshot.

[caymanjim → r3trohack3r]

That's what I get for living in Linuxland for so long. BSDs tend to be so much smarter, but I'm stuck with Linux inertia.

[mekster → caymanjim]

So, use zfs on Linux.

[kiwijamo → r3trohack3r]

I thought UFS was still the default with ZFS being a supported alternative option for root filesystems?

[mjochim → caymanjim]

Huh? Btrfs is copy on write and it's definitely being used.