Am Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 10:03:01AM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > That > > > said btrfs has its less than stellar moments. I still have systems that > > > use > > > ext4 and they "seem" reliable for light duty but I make sure I have > > > backups > > > and do not trust them with anything important - been bitten too many > > > times! > > In what kind of situations did you encounter these problems? > > Also a fixed number of nodes. on creation (annoying and sometimes > disastrous when it runs out - think lots of small files like mail > storage),
That would be my biggest concern, especially back in the day when I had rather limited hardware resources. I was “haggling” with myself as to how many inodes I would really need. These days I’m more generous, but still modify the inodes count when formatting a partition. See Dale’s recent SSD thread. > power outages cause what seems like silent corruption that builds up. I > will admit ext4 does seem better these days but I am not a fan. OK, that I’ve never had. Maybe a few forced shutdowns because the machine hung up (e.g. memory full or a botched wake from suspend). > How do you find f2fs? - I lose (wear out I guess) SD cards on raspberry pi > and Odroid systems on a regular basis with any of the mainstream filesystems > - using them as a boot drive only extends their life, but that's not always > possible. Well, no problems so far. But I’m not stress-testing it, it just runs™. The Pi is just a simple pihole/radicale/nextcloud server with not much traffic and the data card in my surface just holds my music collection. The only “issue” I currently encounter is some warning messages on Arch when I do a system update. I can’t remember the exact error, but it’s just a warning about some feature. However: The Arch wiki says: “F2FS has a weak fsck that can lead to data loss in case of a sudden power loss [3][4]. If power losses are frequent, consider an alternative file system.“ OTOH, Google is now using f2fs in Android data partitions. Before that, it was ext4. :-) -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. After humans ceased to be apes, they became Egyptians.
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