From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33011) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jLYaE-0001c3-S3 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:43:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLYaD-0007qk-Pi for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:43:02 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:37721) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLYaD-0007qU-MW for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:43:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jLYaD-00046d-KM for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:43:01 -0400 Subject: [bug#40236] [PATCH] doc: Suggest Btrfs with compression instead of ext4 for root partition. Resent-Message-ID: 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> From: Jonathan Brielmaier Message-ID: Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 22:42:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87r1x0welb.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: de-DE Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Pierre Neidhardt , Maxim Cournoyer , Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: 40236@debbugs.gnu.org On 06.04.20 22:20, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:> Jonathan Brielmaier wrote on Tue Mar 31 14:09:04+0200 2020 >>> * gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl: Adjust root file-system to use Btr= fs. >> >> 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? 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). >> 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. I had no use for them on my laptop. On a Guix System even less, because you have rollbacks from the package manager :) > 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