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There's A Proposal To Switch Fedora 33 On The Desktop To Using Btrfs
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Originally posted by curfew View PostAll that the dev said is that they have already enough problems on their own
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Originally posted by MadeUpName View PostUmmm. F____ no!!!! While BTRFS has some merit on the server, on the desktop ... hell no. I spend about half my time on the desktop editing movies and pictures and a copy on write file system is shite for that.
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I was an early convert to btrfs on fedora, but wouldn't really recommend it now, especially as a default. There are 2 reasons:
1. Measurements on phroronix show btrfs is slower than ext4 on many workloads
2. I once ran into the issue where btrfs says it's out of space, when df says it's not. It took a lot of googling to find the fix (I think it
had something to do with rebalancing? Don't actually remember)
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Originally posted by Volta View PostIs there any point on using it on desktop? Performance? No. Stability? I doubt.
Write-in-place filesystems are obsolete relics of history. Some people don't seem to realize this because they have very basic expectations of a filesystem and no understanding of what they're missing out on.
I do a ton of code compilation and it's nice to think how much drive wear I'm avoiding by using ccache with the file_clone option enabled. The older hard_link option was always too risky to use (not having proper copy-on-write semantics).Last edited by JustinTurdeau; 27 June 2020, 02:20 PM.
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