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On 23/04/2013 20:40, 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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In over 10 years, I have never had a file system failure with any of |
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these (all used a lot): |
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ext2 |
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ext3 |
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ext4 |
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zfs |
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reiser3 |
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I have had failures with these (used a lot): |
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Oh wait, there aren't any of those. |
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What I'm saying is that unless you do something bat shit crazy insane |
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you are rather unlikely to have to deal with filesystem issues. Hardware |
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issues are MUCH more common. |
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Don't use btrfs just yet, it's not production-ready and the on-disk |
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format is liable to change. |
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ext4 is fine. All the horror stories ended years ago and almost all |
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major distros ship it as a default. |
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reiser is unsupported and liable to bitrot if it isn't already. |
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p.s. you will hear horror stories about any filesystem you care to list. |
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All you need do is find just one idiot that did something stupid once |
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and wreaked his fs, and suddenly it's the software's fault. But every |
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time we discuss filesystems here the vast majority of users of a certain |
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type state they never had any issues with it. Me too :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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