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Are there any plans to move to a modern copy-on-write filesystem, such as BTRFS or ZFS?

Asked by Seth

Having experienced firsthand what the PC-BSD[1] team has done with ZFS snapshots on their desktop OS, including 'boot environments'[2] for easy-as-pie system rollbacks, I am left dissatisfied using legacy filesystems like ext4.

Does the development team have any plans to change out the default ext4 filesystem to a modern COW (Copy-On-Write) one such as BTRFS[3] or ZFS[4]?

Further reading: Advantages of BTRFS over Ext4[5]

[1] https://www.pcbsd.org/
[2] http://web.pcbsd.org/doc/10/html/controlpanel.html#boot-manager
[3] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
[4] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/zfsover-2/index.html
[5] https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-of-Btrfs-over-Ext4

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