Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 29/4/23 19:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: Filesystem choice is very much to do with your particular use case. I am not a fan of ext4 - lost too much data too many times.  I ve found btrfs and xfs much tougher, and the onli

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 02:04:52PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > On Saturday, 29 April 2023 12:45:31 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > > That > > > said btrfs has its less than stellar moments. I still have systems that > > > us

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 29 April 2023 12:45:31 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > That > > said btrfs has its less than stellar moments. I still have systems that > > use ext4 and they "seem" reliable for light duty but I make sure I have

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > Filesystem choice is very much to do with your particular use case. > > I am not a fan of ext4 - lost too much data too many times.  I ve found > btrfs and xfs much tougher, and the online tools much more convenient. I’ve been

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 04:58:02PM +0200 schrieb tastytea: > > Does the transparent compression incur an overhead cost in processing, > > memory use, or disk writes? I feel like it certainly has to at least > > use more memory. Sorry if that's an RTFM question. > > it'll use more cpu and memory