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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Report: Experience with f2fs
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 14:24:39
Message-Id: 4004857.yW4izUqAHt@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Report: Experience with f2fs by Rich Freeman
1 On Tuesday 24 February 2015 07:31:26 Rich Freeman wrote:
2
3 > In general though there is a reason that sysadmins tend to be very
4 > conservative with filesystems. I doubt most even jumped onto ext4 all
5 > that quickly even though that was very stable from the start of being
6 > declared as such. You really need to look at your use case and
7 > understand the risks and benefits and how you plan to mitigate the
8 > risks. Something being experimental isn't a reason to automatically
9 > avoid using it if it brings some significant benefit to your design,
10 > as long as you've mitigated the risks.
11
12 Yes, and that's why I felt the risk justified when I adopted f2fs in
13 that box. It's a LAN server and so doesn't change much, and it's backed
14 up weekly. Well, the web and http-replicator proxies do have constantly
15 changing data of course, but nothing that can't be fetched again
16 cheaply.
17
18 > And, of course, if your goal is to better understand an experimental
19 > technology in a non-critical setting you should probably just get your
20 > feet wet.
21
22 Indeed. And I'm sometimes impulsive anyway. I certainly didn't conduct a
23 formal risk assessment. (<tabloid> Shock! Horror! </tabloid>) :-)
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25 --
26 Rgds
27 Peter.