On 2023-04-27 16:52+0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:54:34 +0200, tastytea wrote: > > > btrfs and zfs have some useful features for normal use cases. the > > transparent compression can save a lot of space and even increase > > speed in some cases, the checksumming guarantees that you will > > never get a corrupt file > > That's only true if you use RAID, when there is a good copy to use. If > you have a single disk, they can only let you know a file is corrupt > but not restore it.
well, you need to have a backup, of course. with ext4 it can happen that a file is corrupted in a way that is not immediately obvious but causes further damage down the line. or you get artifacts in your music and only notice it after it is too late and all your backups have the damaged version.
