blackstrat

As long as there are no problems with the btrfs code? Hahahahaha!! There are.

I can't use VPN on my work PC so I have some services open on sub domains that aren't in my DNS. Follow some basic rules and it's fine. My phone is always connected to my Wireguard running on Opnsense. It's simple, fully self hosted and works great.

Everyone saying it'll be fine is speaking theoretically. Practically I can attest to full and total file system corruption under this scenario.

Careful. You might get hit by a bus.

It stole all my data. It's a bit of a clusterfuck of a file system, especially one so old. This article gives a good overview: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/ It managed to get into a state where it wouldn't even let me mount it readonly. I even resorted to running commands of which the documentation just said "only run this if you know what you're doing", but actually gave no guidance to understand - it was basically a command for the developer to use and noone else. It ddn't work anyway. Every other system that was using the same disks but with ext4 on their filesystems came back and I was able to fsck them and continue on. I think they're all still running without issue 6 years later.

For such an old file system, it has a lot of braindead design choices and a huge amount of unreliability.

I gave up trying to setup a Mastodon server in docker. Lemmy was pretty tricky at the time as the docs were wrong. My email server was a bit tricky, but I've not really done much to tinker with it in the proceeding 6 years, so was worth it.

Why fake serial numbers?

I used btrfs once. Never again!

Are you saying SSDs are faster than HDDs?