Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
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

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 29/4/23 19:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: Filesystem choice is very much to do with your particular use case. I am not a fan of ext4 - lost too much data too many times.  I ve found btrfs and xfs much tougher, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 02:04:52PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > On Saturday, 29 April 2023 12:45:31 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > > That > > > said btrfs has its less than stellar moments. I still have systems that > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 29 April 2023 12:45:31 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +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

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > Filesystem choice is very much to do with your particular use case. > > I am not a fan of ext4 - lost too much data too many times.  I ve found > btrfs and xfs much tougher, and the online tools much more convenient. I’ve

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 04:58:02PM +0200 schrieb tastytea: > > Does the transparent compression incur an overhead cost in processing, > > memory use, or disk writes? I feel like it certainly has to at least > > use more memory. Sorry if that's an RTFM question. > > it'll use more cpu and

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On 28/4/23 21:21, Michael wrote: On Friday, 28 April 2023 13:54:37 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 28 April 2023 10:08:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: 230428 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: I've built & tested the new machine I was planning

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-28 Thread Michael
On Friday, 28 April 2023 13:54:37 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 28 April 2023 10:08:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: > > 230428 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: > > >> I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 > > >> & am at

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 28 April 2023 10:08:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 230428 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: > >> I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 > >> & am at the point of designing the partitions. > >> For many years, I've used

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
230428 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: >> I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 >> & am at the point of designing the partitions. >> For many years, I've used Reiserfs, but it is now obsolescent, >> so I need to choose an

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: > I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 > & am at the point of designing the partitions. > > For many years, I've used Reiserfs, but it is now obsolescent, > so I need to choose an alternative. Reiserfs seemed

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-28 Thread Andreas Stiasny
On 27.04.23 14:23, Philip Webb wrote: I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 & am at the point of designing the partitions. For many years, I've used Reiserfs, but it is now obsolescent, so I need to choose an alternative. Reiserfs seemed appropriate for a system with a

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/27/2023 02:23:01 PM, Philip Webb wrote: I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 & am at the point of designing the partitions. For many years, I've used Reiserfs, but it is now obsolescent, so I need to choose an alternative. Reiserfs seemed appropriate for a system

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread tastytea
On 2023-04-27 16:52+0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:54:34 +0200, tastytea wrote: > > > btrfs and zfs have some useful features for normal use cases. the > > transparent compression can save a lot of space and even increase > > speed in some cases, the checksumming guarantees

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Wols Lists
On 27/04/2023 16:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:54:34 +0200, tastytea wrote: btrfs and zfs have some useful features for normal use cases. the transparent compression can save a lot of space and even increase speed in some cases, the checksumming guarantees that you will never

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:54:34 +0200, tastytea wrote: > btrfs and zfs have some useful features for normal use cases. the > transparent compression can save a lot of space and even increase speed > in some cases, the checksumming guarantees that you will never get a > corrupt file That's only true

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread tastytea
On 2023-04-27 10:14-0400 Matt Connell wrote: > On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 15:54 +0200, tastytea wrote: > > btrfs and zfs have some useful features for normal use cases. the > > transparent compression can save a lot of space and even increase > > speed in some cases, the checksumming guarantees that

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 15:54 +0200, tastytea wrote: > btrfs and zfs have some useful features for normal use cases. the > transparent compression can save a lot of space and even increase speed > in some cases, the checksumming guarantees that you will never get a > corrupt file and snapshots make

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread tastytea
On 2023-04-27 09:34-0400 Matt Connell wrote: > On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 08:23 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > Ext4 seems to be used by well-known binary distros. > > There's a reason for this. It can fulfill all but the most niche or > intensive roles, is robustly supported, well-tested both in >

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 08:23 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Ext4 seems to be used by well-known binary distros. There's a reason for this. It can fulfill all but the most niche or intensive roles, is robustly supported, well-tested both in development and through wide use in the field, and generally

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 > & am at the point of designing the partitions. > > For many years, I've used Reiserfs, but it is now obsolescent, > so I need to choose an alternative. Reiserfs seemed appropriate > for a system with a large number

[gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Philip Webb
I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 & am at the point of designing the partitions. For many years, I've used Reiserfs, but it is now obsolescent, so I need to choose an alternative. Reiserfs seemed appropriate for a system with a large number of small files. Ext4 seems to