[mythtv-users] Storage best practices in 2017

[Will Dormann]

On 4/1/17 9:37 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
> Perhaps the biggest advantage of ZFS are snapshots... Great for some
> workloads, though perhaps not MythTV.


I think just about any workload can benefit from snapshots.  Imagine
you're doing an OS and/or MythTV software update.   Snapshots can give
you an instantaneous restore point to return to in case something goes
wrong.   Even incremental backups will take time to complete.



-WD