On 20/09/17 05:12 AM, Rodney Baker wrote:
Btrfs is a great choice - if you want to end up with an unbootable system after a few shapshots have used up all available disk space on the root filesystem, leaving the system unbootable and unrecoverable (and all because it doesn’t use sensible defaults and there is no warning during installation that the defaults need to be tweaked to prevent this).
Yes. BtrFS is a great FS for a professional system such as a IT department, especially one that is used to mainframes where there are admins who are used to the rollback/snapshot mechanism. To them it is very important so that problematic upgrades/patches can be reversed. The desktop user outside of a well supported by IT department firm, a home user, a SMB that can't afford an IT department and possibly not a on-call Linux-geek needs something that avoids the planned approach of the FS that need pre-provisioning such as ext4, and avoids the above mentioned issues of BtrFS. The true B-tree FS like Reiser and XFS do this. Personally I think XFS is a bit heavy for the job. I've had problems with XFS but never with reiser That's why I've gone with Reiser. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org