On 9/11/2018 6:31 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 2018-09-11 9:19 a.m., Carlos E. R. wrote:
The fact is, I haven't had a problem with ext4 on / in a decade at least.
Similarly, I haven't had a problem with ReiserFS for the same or longer.
Linda? Would you care to comment on XFS?
um...I've been using it since before I was using SuSE. In the early days of it being on linux, I had a prob with disk corruption, but we are talking pre 2.0 kernel here as well,I think or very early 2.x series. Can't really say it was the fault of XFS given the lower stability, overall back then, but can't say it wasn't -- it was a new kid on the block back then. As for needing a separate partition for boot. I've always had a separate boot, because you don't want something like xfs_fsr running through that partition after lilo as looked where the kernels are on the disk. That said, you can now mark flags 'no-defrag' to skip them. Also, the need for it on /, /boot and /usr is minimal to non-existent. FWIW, all my partitions are xfs -- never had a problem with grub not working with xfs cuz I didn't use grub (lilo). lilo is pretty simplistic, but there is less to go wrong (like when grub started failing in conjunction with XFS because it wrote to a 'live' filesystem. So, it's supported acls and extended attrs from day 1, and work is ongoing to add deduplication. My only gripe has been that most utils didn't support acls and ext-attr backup/restore or copy, so was "limited"[sic?] to xfs_backup/restore, which is still a good & fast way to copy an xfs file system, however, tar, cp as well as rsync all understand extattrs and acls, so other options are available. Did I answer the question(s)? (too much? Dang.) -l -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org