On 2/21/21 1:58 AM, Mary via mailop wrote:
They only support the ext4 file system.
I feel like that's poorly worded. Or at least a victim of semantics."support" equates to hand holding and tooling. Their kernels do include support (as in capability) for many file systems.
myLinode$ fgrep -v "nodev" /proc/filesystems
reiserfs
ext3
ext2
ext4
cramfs
squashfs
vfat
exfat
iso9660
romfs
fuseblk
udf
jfs
xfs
gfs2
gfs2meta
btrfs
All their servers get installed with ext4 by default.
"by default" being the operative phrase.
If you manually format into something else (xfs, btrfs, etc) then most (all?) linode services stop working, like their backups!
I don't know about this. I've had mixed results over the last five years.
Maybe its ok for most use cases, but things like MongoDB will complain if run on ext4.
It's trivial to add an additional disk to the Linode. Use a file system that MongoDB is more happy with and leave the root file system the default (ext4) if you want to use Linode's ""features. (I avoid them.)
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