On 20/11/2018 11:37, Richard Brown wrote:
Backup and restore is best served by using btrfs' incremental backup features
Piffle. You do *not* get to dictate to anyone what FS they use or what backup methodology. The best backup method is a totally separate copy of the data on other media in another computer, and then filesystem is irrelevant.
* performance optimisation (OS on SSD, home on disk)
This is not true, the current behaviour of our partitioner does NOT support OS on SSD and /home on disk
Don't care. Secondly, it should. This is an absolutely basic scenario; otherwise you are assuming that everyone has expensive kit or an unlimited budget. Rotating media are still much cheaper than SSD and probably will be for as long as Linux is around.
Having a single filesystem is bar far easier to repair, troubleshoot, and recover data from. Speaking from experience, having to worry about half a dozen partition boundries when recovering data from a broken hard disk is an absolute nightmare
Hi. Professional systems engineer since the 1980s here. Essentially every single part of that statement is wrong.
All of which are fine reasons for users who care about those use cases to click the tickbox to have a separate /home
It is a profound error to optimise for any one particular use case. Be flexible, not rigid. Remember Postel's law.
But none of those are valid as the 'default' usecase for openSUSE - we don't support installing multiple versions of the distro alongside each other, nor do we support parallel user of /home from multiple distros - no way your /home dotfiles will be kept sane in those cases.
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