Re: [opensuse-factory] M0 installation proposed xfs for /home

On 20 March 2014 15:55, Robert Munteanu wrote:

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Arvin Schnell wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:44:57PM +0200, Robert Munteanu wrote:

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Hi,

Just installed M0 from DVD. I pretty much kept to the defaults, and I noticed that /home is xfs, not btrfs, although I have other partitions formatter as btrfs.

I was under the impression that the default is btrfs for 13.2 [1]

Is this intentional?

Yes, at least for the SUSE Enterprise products. With the common code base it is now also included in openSUSE.

OK, no bug report then :-)

Thanks,

Robert

Just to add a little extra info, the logic goes something like this btrfs as default for the / (root) filesystem so we can all take advantage of advanced features like snapper making every change in YaST or software update nice and safe and reversable However, btrfs is not a perfect filesystem for all use cases and that snapshotting produces extra overhead, especially in the use of storage (those snapshots eat space), so XFS is the nice reliable, high performance, default choice for 'DATA' (aka /home) Personally, I actually use btrfs for everything - I use snapshots of /home to back out of stupid mistakes to my own files and such, but I understand the logic of the current default proposal, which is why I thought I should share it - Rich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org