I accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.
I went on to rm -rv ~/etc, but I quickly typed rm -rv /etc instead, and hit enter, while using a root account.
This is why you should setup daily snapshots of your system volumes.
Btrfs and ZFS exist for a reason.
That or make your system immutable
That’s my current approach. Fedora Atomic, and let someone else break my OS instead of me.
You can still break your /etc folder. But many other folders are safe.
Personally I do both.
Use Nix. And keep your system config in git.
Wish ZFS didn’t constantly cause my proxmox to need to be forcefully restarted after the ZFS pool crashed randomly.
I get months of uptime on a ZFS NAS, though I’m not using Proxmox. I don’t think it’s the filesystem’s fault, you might have some hardware issue tbh. Do you have any logs?
I just reformatted back to ext after messing with it for about a month, been totally fine since.
I do also assume it was something screwy with how it was handling my consumer m2
I am running a zfs raidz1-0 pool on 3 consumer nvme in my workstation, doing crazy stuff on it.
Ran zfs under proxmox with enterprise nvme and had the same issue.
It is proxmox, not zfs