USB Drive as offline backup

[harsh]

Nonsense, it's the most portable filesystem capable of storing files larger than 2 GB (technically FAT32 is more widespread, but that's only still relevant because of UEFI).

As I understand it, enabling certain ZFS flags in Cobia can make the drives incompatible with Bluefin. How is that "portable"?

NTFS can be read by every modern OS out there along with some that aren't so modern (ie. MS-DOS).

Such is not to say that NTFS is ideal in any other way but it is hard to beat for interoperability.

 

[Ericloewe]

As I understand it, enabling certain ZFS flags in Cobia can make the drives incompatible with Bluefin.

So don't, if it's something you care about. Portability doesn't mean everyone needs to stick to the bad old days of v28 without feature flags.

NTFS can be read by every modern OS out there

Significant asterisks are involved in that statement. Less so today, but it's still not an entirely solved problem.