<div dir="ltr">On 25 April 2014 18:46, Benjamin Donnachie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benjamin@py-soft.co.uk" target="_blank">benjamin@py-soft.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">I shall certainly experiment with it [ZFS] and BTRFS a little more once I get the exam next week out of the way and backed up my data properly...<br>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Took a while but finally found time to experiment. My attempts to use BTFS were met with filesystem corruption that I eventually traced to a defective DIMM. Once bitten, twice shy and all that, I decided to give zfsonlinux + ecryptfs a go. Although it worked well ecryptfs made the snapshots difficult to work with.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So I finally took the plunge and, despite the warnings on doom on the Interwebs, went for zfsonlinux + luks. It feels faster than using ecryptfs and also the previous mdadm RAID6 with ext4 setup and the auto-snapshot feature is simply amazing! :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ben</div></div></div></div>