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[polarathene]

Right... you complain about BTRFS providing plenty of information via wiki pages on the filesystem, especially in regards to information about stability....

[polarathene]

Cool, third time... where can I easily find equivalent for XFS to check status of it's CoW work?

What about DAX support for both XFS and...

[polarathene]

These quotes are from the main BTRFS wiki page you had linked earlier:





Because "Maybe" depends on your...

[polarathene]

If they can afford the risk of getting up to 70k in CI costs, they could afford to pay someone for much less to assist if they lacked the proper domain...

[polarathene]

I'm a bit surprised they racked up 70k... would have thought they'd have anticipated/measured costs early on or prior to transition while evaluating it....

[polarathene]

If you use the filesystem with it's basic default features, it's stable. The page makes that rather clear. There are other features like RAID 5/6 that...

[polarathene]

I was reading this thinking woah, did they get this working on X11?? And then nope, it's Wayland only

BTW, not sure why but clicking the...

[polarathene]

That page points out stability several times, how are these statements not equivalent to filesystems that you'd consider stable?:


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[polarathene]

Not really. I had used Gnome on several systems:

Personal Desktop - Nvidia dGPU as primary graphics.
Personal Laptop - Nvidia Optimus...

[polarathene]

That's apparently fine, as long as you're aware not to run into this gotcha, not that there is likely any reason to use an LVM snapshot if you're using...

[polarathene]

I think they're referring to classic block level snapshots like I was. There's a "thin" type which is more performant, but I don't know the...

[polarathene]

BTRFS can operate on individual files or directories from a snapshot, whereas LVM snapshots operate on the whole logical volume only. In fairness though,...

[polarathene]

LVM snapshots aren't as good as the BTRFS kind.

Stability? BTRFS is pretty stable these days, are you biasing this based on issues from years...

[polarathene]

Source please?

That said, you don't really choose BTRFS for best performance, but for the features it offers that other filesystems like...

[polarathene]

Odd, no kwallet issues here, I remember that years ago being a problem but it hasn't been for some time now.

The KIO/SMB issues have also...

[polarathene]

I use nvidia and proprietary drivers, I legit don't care to that extreme. I've found Plasma to be a better experience than I ever had with Gnome which...

[polarathene]

KDE completed version 4 several years ago!...

[polarathene]

Aren't you one of the users that bashes KDE news if there's a similar improvement there?

GNOME ended up becoming KDE4 bad for some time with...

[polarathene]

[QUOTE=fredvej;n1189693]How is that useful? If I want a hard link I make a hard link, if I want a copy of the data (e.g. for editing without changing...

[polarathene]

I thought that was a bit odd for a feature too. It's definitely improved on that front though over the years.. In 2016 for example I think the filesystem...