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[–] subtext@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

So should ext3 be deprecated for the same reason? Seems it also has the 2038 problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3

E: Seams -> Seems

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Thanks for that! which made me read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3#ext4 Maybe high time for myself to learn more about ZFS.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

ZFS is really nice. I started experimenting with it when it was being introduced to FreeBSD, around 2007-2008, but only truly started using it last year, for two NASes (on Linux).

It's complex for a filesystem, but considering all it can do, that's not surprising.

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