From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: "Jonathan Brielmaier" <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>,
"Maxim Cournoyer" <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>,
"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 40236@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40236] [PATCH] doc: Suggest Btrfs with compression instead of ext4 for root partition.
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:07:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8s3wz7d.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9bde2d4-01ba-4827-f667-05b83d66d66e@web.de>
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Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> writes:
> No, I did run openSUSE on btrfs, there was no Guix involved at all. But
> btrfs seemed to be the root case of all my troubles (performance,
> hang-ups etc).
When did you try this? Maybe some issues have been fixed in the
meantime.
I've used Btrfs on a few computers for many months now and it's been a
bliss. Of course experiences vary ;)
>>> Further do we need all this rollback stuff from btrfs if we have it
>>> already in Guix?
>>
>> Btrfs has many benefits over Ext3:
>>
>> it offers compression to about 30% on average, it supports subvolumes,
>> snapshots and snapshot syncing, and much more.
>
> Snapshots did fill up my disk.
What do you mean?
> I had no use for them on my laptop. On a
> Guix System even less, because you have rollbacks from the package
> manager :)
Snapshots are not just for rollbacks: you can sync them across the
network to a remote machine. This allows you to deploy disk images very
fast.
>> For all these reasons I believe Btrfs is a good default for the OSes of tomorrow! :)
>
> So maybe create a config for the OSes of tomorrow: btrfs, wireguard,
> rust etc :P
In the end, what I'm suggesting is this issue is merely a
recommendation.
Currently Guix is very annoying to use on small Ext4 partitions, e.g. a
64 GiB SSD. With compression on, you suddenly get 3x more space for
your /gnu/store :)
--
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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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 [this message]
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
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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