NOTE: Last update to this gist was on Jun 2, 2018. Most of the things here are out of date (e.g consider using zstd for transparent compression instead of lzo), so do your own research as well. Take care!
- Plenty of storage - snapshots will take (sort of) a lot of space
- Latest Arch Linux install iso because those have newer kernels and more bugfixes in btrfs.
- Have previous experience with installing Arch (like you can install arch with a blind fold).
- Read everything through