Hello,
I'm getting ready to install PBS for the first time. This machine only has a single NVME slot, so I'm using that for boot.
I know that the boot filesystem is completely independent of my storage filesystem (that is, I could use ext4 for the boot drive and ZFS mirroring for the actual backup storage).
However, I'm not sure what type of filesystem to use for the boot drive. I have 64 GiB of RAM, so I'm not worried about ZFS not having enough to work well.
My inclination is to use ZFS in a single disk mirror, as it's my understanding that the way it is overall more resistant to corruption than ext4. I think (I'm very new at this) that I'd also have the benefit of snapshots/replication on the boot drive to be able to restore the PBS boot partition quickly in the event I need to rebuild the system.
Is that the way to go? Or should I just stick with ext4?
I'm completely unfamiliar with XFS, so I have no idea how it fits into all this.
I'm getting ready to install PBS for the first time. This machine only has a single NVME slot, so I'm using that for boot.
I know that the boot filesystem is completely independent of my storage filesystem (that is, I could use ext4 for the boot drive and ZFS mirroring for the actual backup storage).
However, I'm not sure what type of filesystem to use for the boot drive. I have 64 GiB of RAM, so I'm not worried about ZFS not having enough to work well.
My inclination is to use ZFS in a single disk mirror, as it's my understanding that the way it is overall more resistant to corruption than ext4. I think (I'm very new at this) that I'd also have the benefit of snapshots/replication on the boot drive to be able to restore the PBS boot partition quickly in the event I need to rebuild the system.
Is that the way to go? Or should I just stick with ext4?
I'm completely unfamiliar with XFS, so I have no idea how it fits into all this.