It used to be you could find a box of photos or keepsakes that you inherited to look back on how things were or when you were a kid. Now, most of that is stored on phones, and most parents probably don’t think to share or save them in a way to be passed down in the future.

  • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
    1·
    6 days ago

    Dude we didn’t come here to argue partition formatting lmao. Cool ZFS is good. But limited to a handful of Linux distros on a computer (not phone) and definitely not for the average Joe* to figure out how to use.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      dude cool down with your tone and downvotes, this is not reddit. if you reread my comment, the zfs part and the partitioning part are independent possibilities. you don’t need partitions for zfs. the 2 partition way is for when you don’t have zfs for whatever reason. you will probably be able to make use of that even from your monthly subscription windows 12.

      btw, there is zfs for windows too. but yeah the other way is easier, only more laborious.

      • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
        2·
        6 days ago

        I don’t care what Windows uses, but you think windows would actually support another format? They’ve used NTFS forever, and ReFS hadn’t really taken of despite its intro around server 2012 & windows 8. Sure it has WSL but idk they’ll support ZFS that much.

        I have been relieved they started supporting the open document format in recent Microsoft 365 desktop software.

        • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          I don’t care what Windows uses

          and your point is? never said anything about what windows uses. doesn’t matter either.

          but you think windows would actually support another format?

          I do not think, I know.

          https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs

          https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs

          https://github.com/RaldS7/btrfs-windows

          https://github.com/Mateuscruz19/Ext4Windows

          but this point also does not matter whatsoever at all, because in my original comment I said nothing about using ZFS on windows.

          points that actually matter were not addressed by you, so whatever. good for you that you could pick on points that don’t matter.

          • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 days ago

            Both BTRFS projects haven’t been updated in years. And the ZFS on Windows project has quite a few caveats, and it doesn’t look like there’s not much work or progress happening there.

            Ultimately, I would never trust Windows with those filesystems. It can barely keep its own things stable, and running a filesystem as a userland process isn’t ideal.

          • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
            2·
            6 days ago

            you will probably be able to make use of that even from your monthly subscription windows 12.

            btw, there is zfs for windows too.

            You literally said it TWICE in your comment. Why else would I have replied to it??

            Also, someone porting ZFS does not make it officially supported, so again, the vast majority of average Joe users will not know or understand ZFS as I stated before.