On 2024-03-12 13:55, Axel Braun wrote:
Am Dienstag, 12. März 2024, 01:23:28 CET schrieb Fritz Hudnut:
Ulf wrote:
Many thanks Mihai and Andreas for quick response :-)
Unluckily this PC is the only one in my Home Network which have a ext4 Filesystem running (OK, lessons learned, next step is to migrate it to btrfs).
Just about all of my linux partitions on at least 3 machines have all used ext4 . . . it was even suggested in openSUSE back when that "ext4 was more stable than btrfs"
yes..some years back that was probably true, but thats history
. . . . I don't see the point to just change the format . . . unless you are doing a fresh install . . . then, OK.
btrfs offer so many advantages, just looking at the snapshot functionality...boot into an old snapshot, snapper rollback, and issues like broke updates are solved.
rollback is a wonderful feature. But it comes with some snags: * btrfs is more difficult to repair in case of corruptions (fsck) * we still don't have a procedure to recreate a btrfs partition setup when doing a restore from scratch. Or cloning. item 2 affects in this case, as the admin can not simply create a new btrfs partition and move the existing system to it. He has to install fresh.
(with no intend to sart a discussion ext4 vs btrfs...)
:-) No, each one has pros and cons, as everything in engineering. We choose according to our respective needs. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)