Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

[Thelma <thelma@sys-concept.com>]

On 1/31/24 08:50, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2024-01-31, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:45 AM John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I know you said you wanted to stay with ext4, but going to zfs reduced
>>> my backup time on my entire system from several hours to just a few
>>> minutes because taking a snapshot is so quick and copying to another
>>> pool is also very quick.
>>>
>>
>> Honestly, at this point I would not run any storage I cared about on
>> anything but zfs.  There are just so many benefits.
> 
> I'll definitely put zfs on my list of things to play with.  I've been
> a little reluctant in the past because it wasn't natively supported. I
> don't use an initrd (or modules in general). So, using a filesystem
> that isn't supported in-tree sounded like too much work.
> 
> --
> Grant

If zfs file system is superior to ext4 and it seems to it is.
Why hasn't it been adopted more widely in Linux?