From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59165) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jLYEx-0003aZ-HB for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:21:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLYEw-00024C-GL for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:21:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:37712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLYEw-00023x-DW for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:21:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jLYEw-0002yv-7F for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:21:02 -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: <87y2rc6nuk.fsf@gmail.com> 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> Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:20:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87r1x0welb.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: Maxim Cournoyer , Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , Jonathan Brielmaier Cc: 40236@debbugs.gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Jonathan, For some reason I did not receive your email: Jonathan Brielmaier wrote on Tue Mar 31 14:09:04+0200 2020 > > * gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl: Adjust root file-system to use Btrf= s. >=20 > I would oppose this change as I had too much troubles with Btrfs on my > openSUSE machines. I used a simple partition layout spanning the whole > disk. AFAIK this is not really recommended with btrfs. My laptop was > from time to time unusable until I reinstalled it with ext4... This is for Guix System only. Did you mean that it would be problematic if you were running openSUSE in dual boot? > 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. For all these reasons I believe Btrfs is a good default for the OSes of tom= orrow! :) =2D-=20 Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAl6LjyAACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH+KFAf7BmPRB+W+twjyyCtOzYZ2tX5PIOlMfuiZcSjyyjGPNsadMtjA+QDN3ibX jD/rgMx9aE18p4fwcdJXsnOeNNQX+aYcwzffD7tz0kGmTqcy4+veZichTnP7Xz+j 1Ry63J0Sawfu2X5HKEy0NtmnHJa0k4uxnUZMAKDOAUZSYhfzXjmtHMBK0MIYVi7Y XvnNlGLGKnQDYnsLvfxYcpk6LOcCLYCk49306+WicyZR/KCeBbhzDDnvqyniMw8e Wu1erIpuD+kWDrpazDnSA7tvL0n8Uj8bUmcNxuO6ifddCmeVjZjj2WSLxzEVX3KW i891BgaZRUmQymfrn3UiH9BZ9mN6rw== =Qg+i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--