Which fs do you prefer? Why? What is its main purpose? (ie, server, occasional use in either desktop or laptop, RAID, SSD, etc)
Sometime soon I will be forced to take the time to upgrade my system here so your input would be appreciated. By upgrade I mean to replace HDD and OS, i.e. a fresh install of something. The what is still up in the air.
I'm a fan of btrfs for all of my operating system disks (aka my root partition, containing my OS install and quite often my /home also) I use this on all of my machines - a home desktop, work desktop, work laptop, the server running https://rootco.de, and even my home router For me the killer usecase of btrfs is the snapshotting and rollback - given the majority of the machines are running some form of rolling release, often with automatic updates, it's nice having the certainty that I can rollback if something goes wrong (though I cant think of any time that I've had to rollback lately) btrfs' strong support of SSD's is a bonus given most of my machines are SSD/flash based. for my server, btrfs was also a natural choice because it's hosted with Hetzner, and their server installation tooling wouldn't let me do Raid 1 the way I wanted it. Being able to do that live on the system after the initial installation was beautiful. for my router, it doubles as a home backup appliance, where btrfs' strong support for de-duplication is proving to be very helpful. I will probably be playing with btrfs send/recieve for incremental backups in the future, but I haven't gotten around to it yet For any disks where none of the above features are beneficial, I use XFS. This is currently one or two rotating disks across all of my systems, which are just 'plain' disks for storing 'plain' data in a very plain fashion. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org