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  • I have use cases for btrfs, xfs and zfs. Somehow ext4 feels legacy or for small systems like Raspberries or when the cloud-image provided is already ext4.

    I use BTRFS for personal PCs because of the subvolume feature (since one year or so), ZFS for backup/archive when I need raid and encryption capability without hardware raid and for proxmox. XFS is for large storage servers where hardware raid is already established or very special cases when a lot of inodes are needed.


  • I have a similar need and I am curious whether my current solution is any good:

    The data of interest is on a server which can only be accessed with ssh inside the institution. I’ve setup a read-only nfs share to a server which has a webserver (https enabled). There, I set up a temporary webdav share to the read-only nfs mount point and protected with htpasswd, hence external institution members do not have accounts at our institution.

    As soon as the transfer is complete I remove all the shares (nfs, webdav).