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On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 14:40 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> I recently got a new Dell "desktop PC" at home, and ran Windows for a |
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> while to make sure nothing is broken. Now I'm getting ready to |
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> partition and reformat for a Gentoo install. My understanding is that |
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> BTRFS and EXT4 are still a bit "bleeding edge". I've used ReiserFS3 for |
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> years with no problems, but I keep hearing horror stories about it. |
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> This will be my biggest main hard drive yet (1 terabyte), so I'm |
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> considering EXT3 for the main partition. Comments? |
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I think btrfs is definitely still considered "experimental", but ext4 is |
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considered stable by the kernel team, I believe. I've been using ext4 on |
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many systems for a few years, and it's been fine. It has the advantage |
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of having extents over ext3, as well as a few other performance |
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improvements. |
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Randy Barlow |
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