On 31/05/2021 12.07, Robin Klitscher wrote:
After long resisting the idea, I hope to switch from ext4 to btrfs for my next installation, Leap 15.3.
The openSUSE norm is btrfs for / and xfs for /home, each in separate partitions, right? But, in contrast as I understand it, it seems Fedora’s default is for a single btrfs partition for both.
Why the difference? That is, why a separate /home in Leap? And why xfs rather than btrfs anyway?
xfs is a good choice, and system snapshots on /home is not clearly a good idea. You could have free space problems, for instance. Too many variables, I think.
And a supplementary question. What are the implications if I wanted to use additional data partition(s) besides /home? Should they be in btrfs? Or xfs? Or doesn’t it matter?
Doesn't matter. That is, the implications are the same as have always been, it is up to you. The only partition that has implications is "/", that openSUSE prefers btrfs and has advantages like snapshots. Me, for instance, do not use btrfs on root, but I use it for backup because it has compression. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)