On 20/11/2018 11.37, Richard Brown wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 11:29, Liam Proven <lproven@suse.cz> wrote:
Precisely.
It is not only for upgrades. It also facilitates: * backup and restore
Backup and restore is best served by using btrfs' incremental backup features
* 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
It certainly does. This computer is done that way, for instance.
* repair, troubleshooting, data recovery, etc.
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
No, I can not agree. It is impossible, AFAIK, to recover from scratch a btrfs based computer, from backup alone. It has to be formatted and a bunch of subvolumes has to be created. There is no automated method I know of that can extract the structure of an existing btrfs filesystem and recreate it. And you forget that one method of recovery is to format "/" and install again, because the data is safe on "/home".
* multi-boot between different versions of a distro * multi-boot between different distros * arguably, multi-boot between different OSes
All of which are fine reasons for users who care about those use cases to click the tickbox to have a separate /home
Yes. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)