Thanks for your advice, Christian. The reason for me asking was that brand-new Suse uses Btrfs for the system and Xfs for /home (if you don't choose different ones). I've read a lot about Btrfs lately, but I wasn't sure it was already safe enough for daily server use. Xfs was completely unknown to me.
For the backup HDs I would prefer ext4. So I thought, when installing a new server, would it be ok to use Btfrs and Xfs with ext4 backup discs, or would it be wiser to use ext4 for everything from the beginning? Regards Rolf Am 08.05.2017 09:53, schrieb Güder, Christian: > > Dear Rolf, > > > As long as the filesystem supports hardlinks, you should be fine. > Nowadays distributions often use ext4 as standard. > > > In the past, we run dirvish on file systems up to a size of ~25 TB > reliably with XFS - altough for file systems bigger than that (currently > more than >250 TB in one volume) we chose ZFS on Linux due to > reliability reasons (several times corrupt filesystems where our only > explanation was the huge size and many read/write operations during our > backups using dirvish - that's why we then switched to ZFS). > > > Kind regards, > > Christian > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> on > behalf of Rolf-Werner Eilert <[email protected]> > *Sent:* 05 May 2017 2:02 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Dirvish] Other file systems > Recently I found that newer Linux breeds (here: OpenSuse) use Btrfs and > Xfs as standard file systems. Is there anything I would have to care for > when I format a dirvish backup HD for it? Would I have to use the same > fs or would good old ext4 do? > > Thanks for your hints! > > Regards > Rolf > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish > > > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish > _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
