On 04/02/2015 08:12 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 4/2/2015 4:04 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Linda recommends XFS. Personally I find it too fiddly.
I still have machines running reiserfs. I've had it crash, once years ago, but never lost any data.
Same here. If I knew anything about FS programming I'd volunteer to maintain it :-) Its been remarkably rock solid; the programmers were damn god. The BtrFS bunch could learn from whatever magical prestidigitation the crew there in Russia practised.
Because I wanted encryption, I went with xfs for /home and one other critical partition that I use for source code.
Regular readers will recall that I advocate LVM. One reason I'm not fanaticial about the ability of BtrFS to take over the whole File tree and spread across spindles. So if I want encryption I do it with LVM and the device mapper http://cryptmount.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceware.org/dm/
I haven't found anything to fiddle with xfs nor any reason to fiddle with it. Its what I had, so I kept it.
Ah, you use 'fiddle' where I would use 'tweak'. I'm referring to all the components. By comparison, Reiser and ext4 are straight forward. I don't mean "knobs to tweak' as in setting to to adjust/tune. The package 'xfsprogs' has 23 separate programs (including the mkfs and fsck), components, for doing things with XFS. By comparison Reiser has 5. Well maybe those XFS components _are_ for tweaking.
With BTRFS I was never sure how much room/free space I had available, how many snapshots I should keep, etc. I never understood why they chose to implement so many sub-directories of root as sub-volumes, when all those sub-volumes were drawing on the same free space pool!
I have the same questions. Particularly the ones about sub-volumes ~=~ sub-directories It makes no sense to me.
I'm letting it mature and letting the tool set mature so that Joe User has a chance of understanding what is going on, or it gets to the state of Reiserfs where you just don't have to worry about it.
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