On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 14:40 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I recently got a new Dell "desktop PC" at home, and ran Windows for a > while to make sure nothing is broken. Now I'm getting ready to > partition and reformat for a Gentoo install. My understanding is that > BTRFS and EXT4 are still a bit "bleeding edge". I've used ReiserFS3 for > years with no problems, but I keep hearing horror stories about it. > This will be my biggest main hard drive yet (1 terabyte), so I'm > considering EXT3 for the main partition. Comments?
I think btrfs is definitely still considered "experimental", but ext4 is considered stable by the kernel team, I believe. I've been using ext4 on many systems for a few years, and it's been fine. It has the advantage of having extents over ext3, as well as a few other performance improvements. -- Randy Barlow
