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On 04/23/2013 02:40 PM, 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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ext3 has been stable for ages. |
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That said, I've been using ext4 for the past 3-4 years on nearly all my |
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systems without a problem. The only scenario I don't use ext4 is for |
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/boot...and there I use ext3. |
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BTRFS is marked as 'EXPERIMENTAL' in the kernel because they don't want |
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you using it for production use. ext4 hasn't had that 'EXPERIMENTAL' |
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flag for years. ext3, even longer. |
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Incidentally, if you use ext3, and your kernel supports ext4, chances |
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are it's the kernel's ext4 code that's handling your ext3 fs. I don't |
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even bother compiling in ext2 and ext3. |
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