On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 16:58, Robert Munteanu
On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 16:46 +0100, Richard Brown wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 16:44, Robert Munteanu
wrote: - By default we will NOT propose a separate /home partition
Just to restate, does that mean that /home will end up being backed by a btrfs filesystem by default?
Correct, /home will be a btrfs subvolume
Have you considered disabling copy-on-write for the /home subvolume? It is (in my limited experience) the primary thing that can suprise users in a nasty way under /home.
The thought crossed my mind, but I don't think it makes sense here Unlike /var, the chances of users having data which will benefit from NoCoW is relatively small - how many users have relational databases stored their /home? Meanwhile having CoW enabled in /home means users can benefit from the *really cool* feature of btrfs send/receive for incremental backups on steroids https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Incremental_Backup My personal systems have been running for over a year using the config I'm now proposing for everyone by default, and there's no way in heck I could live with /home with CoW disabled. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org