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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 50768@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#50768] [PATCH] installer: Reorder file system type listbox.
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 20:41:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y26m5het.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf2xs3n8.fsf@gnu.org>

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Ludo',

Ludovic Courtès 写道:
> I’ve seen Keyras mention such a problem here, but again, I have 
> not seen
> “regular bug reports”.

I've seen enough.  s/bug reports/worried questions, not always 
prior to messing with file system options/ for accuracy.

> Are there open bug reports about ext4 issues?
  
As in issues: no idea.  I would expect them to be closed, so it's 
not much of a metric.

> What I do regularly see is rants about ext4 :-), which might be
> justified, but in my many years with a store I have never had 
> problems
> with ext4.  Also, the deduplication code gracefully handles 
> ENOSPC on
> /gnu/store/.links.

The kernel doesn't discriminate and logs warnings.  Several people 
do notice these, don't realise that they are ‘harmless’, and 
follow some on-line tutorial to enable large_dir.  Which 
apparently breaks GRUB.

None of this is Guix's fault.  It does happen.

I'm not happy with this patch: it's the tiniest possible tweak and 
puts a lot of implicit meaning into the default ordering.

I didn't find a good way to dynamically display a description of 
each file system, but I wouldn't know what kind of Newt UI 
primitives/concepts to search for.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-21 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-23 17:59 [bug#50768] [PATCH] installer: Reorder file system type listbox Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2021-09-24 21:24 ` John Kehayias via Guix-patches via
2021-10-13  8:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-10-21 18:41   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via [this message]
2021-10-25  9:29     ` [bug#50768] ext4 & btrfs Ludovic Courtès

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