But the rules say the system must be usable.
But the rules say the system must be usable.
I don’t have the source right now, but I had the same idea not long ago, and the tl;dr is swap on a zvol is a very bad idea. If your system ever runs low on memory and actually needs to do heavy swapping, you’re setting yourself up for a catastrophe.
My streaming service (Jellyfin) always has all the seasons of everything. 😉
Assuming this is an option for you, convert your ext4 partition to btrfs (can be done without data loss) and enjoy having proper snapshot support. Timeshift makes it really easy to automate and manage btrfs snapshots.
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