From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jLiM3-0001mY-Sr for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2020 03:09:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLiM2-000472-M5 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2020 03:09:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:37947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLiM2-00046p-JU for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2020 03:09:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jLiM2-0002BZ-Ah for guix-patches@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2020 03:09:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#40236] [PATCH] doc: Suggest Btrfs with compression instead of ext4 for root partition. Resent-Message-ID: From: Pierre Neidhardt In-Reply-To: References: <20200326083524.20275-1-mail@ambrevar.xyz> <87h7y5z3x0.fsf@gmail.com> <87lfnesxp6.fsf@gnu.org> <87pncqbbp5.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87zhbuqpns.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2rc6nuk.fsf@gmail.com> <87r1x0welb.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:07:50 +0200 Message-ID: <87o8s3wz7d.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Jonathan Brielmaier , Maxim Cournoyer , Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 40236@debbugs.gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jonathan Brielmaier 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 :) =2D-=20 Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAl6MJsYACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH/muQgAkVJtLaFxlqvU94+t6ZMBZErAbX8thuaFsLG7H1dMDLVRCI+7qP7eVdrp 1BKwsJ7eqWkPICAe/lFts45hMjaGJdvPGzfNXGaqq8N4G1/5YetkWB8EuwM4jLFJ Z/qxjpj0hT4j9AMLiw4IVmS4qrD6c8ndwB3M4/MAaUwdrQWOBj6K8KhEShEueRub DCjmf5k04cPmOSWu+gegWAqQUfhF5H3bLrEkUb3Fq1P5eXQ28+ZSagQpdCS/8CmP gWGes+h9I1DeWJ6dWn0xk3bb3cE8CeSwr/vyeeaHNo+iGHE8GjqHQWB1l98KTkDk 1/gt9dK+lOrWAQQmGfbDvwZCdLS5VQ== =Fmgq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--