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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: "Jonathan Brielmaier" <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>,
	"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
	40236@debbugs.gnu.org,
	"Maxim Cournoyer" <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#40236] [PATCH] doc: Suggest Btrfs with compression instead of ext4 for root partition.
Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 10:55:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200531075532.GD7397@E5400> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2p83650.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>

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On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 09:39:23AM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Now that 37305 is merged, we can revisit this issue.
> 
> 1. This patch only includes a documentation update.
> 2. We could make Btrfs the default in the graphical installer.
> 3. We would probably need to update the tests, at least for the latter.
> 
> As mentioned above, I think it's safe to enable Btrfs without subvolume,
> with Zstd compression.
> 
> For subvolumes, we would need to implement the corresponding tests.
> 
> Thoughts?

My main concern is the possibility of data loss. I don't know how much
is FUD and how much is legit so to me it seems safest to see what
OpenSuSE uses and to mimic that a bit (in terms of not using most of the
features available).

That said, I use btrfs with no subvolumes with compression turned on and
I'm pretty happy with that.

Two more things:
/var/guix/db should probably have CoW disabled, as should /tmp
would the deduplication of btrfs be "better" than the deduplication from
the daemon?


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-31  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-26  8:35 [bug#40236] [PATCH] doc: Suggest Btrfs with compression instead of ext4 for root partition Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-31  1:52 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-31  7:52   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-31 14:53   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-31 23:20     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-01  7:00       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-02 13:29         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-02 13:50           ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-02 13:58             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-02 19:03               ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-03  7:01                 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-04 15:22                   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-01 21:28   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-02  7:15     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-02  8:04       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-02 10:36         ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-04-04  1:28         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-06 20:20           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-06 20:42             ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-04-07  7:07               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-08  3:18                 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-09 20:12                   ` Efraim Flashner
2020-04-10  7:39                     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-10  8:24                       ` Efraim Flashner
2020-04-10  9:04                         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-14  2:20                           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-04-14  6:53                             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-31  7:39                               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-31  7:55                                 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2020-06-01  4:21                                   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-06-01  6:16                                     ` Efraim Flashner
2020-06-01  7:48                                       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-06-01 18:29                                         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-05-31 21:07                                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-01  5:03                                   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-06-02 13:37                                   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-06-03 20:00                                     ` bug#40236: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-04  9:17                                       ` [bug#40236] " Pierre Neidhardt
2020-06-01  4:49                                 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-31 12:09 ` Jonathan Brielmaier

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