Re: [OCLUG-Tech] optimal choice for filesystem type for SSD drive doing big builds?

2016-01-12 Thread Alex Pilon
> As the Fedora default is ext4, use ext4. Also ext4 is possibly the > best debugged FS in the world. Still doesn't prevent it from having seriously scary data loss bugs like lest than two years ago. > IMHO the advantages to btrfs are better suited to large multi-user > filesystems anyway. Stuff

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] why can't linux use a DOS-formatted root filesystem?

2016-01-12 Thread Alex Pilon
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:08:55PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i know, it sounds like a moderately inane question, but it came up in the > context of a legacy, DOS-formatted system where the quest was to install > linux, *but* retain the option of backtracking to DOS in case things didn't >

[OCLUG-Tech] why can't linux use a DOS-formatted root filesystem?

2016-01-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i know, it sounds like a moderately inane question, but it came up in the context of a legacy, DOS-formatted system where the quest was to install linux, *but* retain the option of backtracking to DOS in case things didn't go well, and the proposal was to retain the DOS formatting of the