Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.01.2013 07:43, schrieb Bill Davidsen: Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.01.2013 02:00, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: Thanks again for your quick response. OK, so you are suggesting I move to lvm, or leave things as is, to ext4? The new installer does not give me an option to format ext4 (but I

Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-20 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.01.2013, Ranjan Maitra wrote: F18 appears to give two options for installing from scratch: lvm or btrfs. Which one is better from the point of view of the longer-term. While btrfs is a filesystem, lvm is not. Therefore, you can't compare them. See e.g.

Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-20 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 19:00 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote: I move to lvm, or leave things as is, to ext4? LVM is a container, if you like. It can span multiple disk drives, so they appear as one huge drive. And it can be expanded across even more drives, if you add them, in the future. That

Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Reindl Harald wrote: Am 20.01.2013 02:00, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: Thanks again for your quick response. OK, so you are suggesting I move to lvm, or leave things as is, to ext4? The new installer does not give me an option to format ext4 (but I can keep it as is, I guess). How does one

lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
F18 appears to give two options for installing from scratch: lvm or btrfs. Which one is better from the point of view of the longer-term. My current HDDs are ext4s. I switched then because I understood that this was the future. Ranjan -- Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are

Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.01.2013 01:45, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: F18 appears to give two options for installing from scratch: lvm or btrfs. Which one is better from the point of view of the longer-term. My current HDDs are ext4s. I switched then because I understood that this was the future. BTRFS is NOT

Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:50:34 +0100 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 20.01.2013 01:45, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: F18 appears to give two options for installing from scratch: lvm or btrfs. Which one is better from the point of view of the longer-term. My current HDDs are

Re: lvm or btrfs? which is preferable (when, if applicable)

2013-01-19 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.01.2013 02:00, schrieb Ranjan Maitra: Thanks again for your quick response. OK, so you are suggesting I move to lvm, or leave things as is, to ext4? The new installer does not give me an option to format ext4 (but I can keep it as is, I guess). How does one convert from ext4 to