On 10/18/2013 09:22 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2013-10-18 17:32, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Why would *anyone* want to still use reiser3? There are, arguably, better choices available in this decade. If something is working well, why change? Oh, I see, you are in the "Denial" phase (cf. Five Stages of Grief).
Because certain filesystems work "better" than "well", and the defaults _during installation_ go for the better. Simple as that.
A reason why FAT is enlisted is not because we like it, but because there may be corner cases of interoperability with Windows. With a Linux fs like reiser3 however, the Windows argument is out the window.
Now that you bring it up, we do use 32-bit FAT and NTFS, but not for Linux system disks. We deliver product on disks and the customer insists on FAT and more recently NTFS. Just out of curiosity, would the installer even let someone try to install system partitions on FAT? I don't think FAT even allows sym-links.
Of course, we'll have to move from reiserfs at some point. Maybe this is the time?
(From parallel subthread:)
What is the recommendation? FAT? That was one of the installation choices. Is FAT better than reiserfs? <sarcasm> Maybe it is? If things work "well" with reiser3, and you see FAT being better than reiser3 because it is listed in the default installation and reiser3 is not, surely you would not mind storing your 70 TB of data on FAT (hypothetically speaking — if FAT could hold that amount of data, which it does not).
I did forget my <sarcasm> brackets, but I'm not going to rise to your snarky comments, Jan. If you'd rather not hear how a user reacts with and uses openSuSE you could always "plonk" comments from those not in your echo chamber. You also didn't answer my question, "why change?" And which of your choices would you recommend we use? btrfs? Why? I don't have a religious faith in reierfs and am perfectly happy with changing, I'd just like to know why. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org