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 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 be used by well-known binary distros.
What would others recommend ?
It depends: is this a UEFI machine?
No, it isn't. I await your recommendation with bated breath (smile).
In that case I have nothing to add to others' suggestions; sorry. :)
It used to be the case btrfs would suffer corruption if you ran out of space.
I don't know if this is the same today. Anecdotally, I've run out of space
and the fs did not become corrupt on that partition. It corrupted another
time though, but thankfully no significant data loss happened after I ran
btrfs scrub, followed by btrfs check.
Now I'm getting this warning on dmesg, but I have no idea what it means:
BTRFS warning (device sdb3): devid 1 physical 0 len 4194304 inside the
reserved space
and the same on 3 other partitions on the same disk. :-/
NOTE: I don't recall ever having problems with ext4, for many years now.
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.
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!
BillK
