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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] optimal choice for filesystem type for SSD drive doing big builds?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] optimal choice for filesystem type for SSD drive doing big builds?
  • From: Alex Pilon <alp [ at ] alexpilon [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:10:43 -0500
> As the Fedora default is ext4, use ext4. Also ext4 is possibly the
> best debugged FS in the world.

Still doesn't prevent it from having seriously scary data loss bugs like
lest than two years ago.

> IMHO the advantages to btrfs are better suited to large multi-user
> filesystems anyway. Stuff like full data checksums to detect silent bit
> rot,

Why would that not be appropriate for users? I'd have loved to have that
feature four five times already; would have saved me from massive data
loss a few times already.

> snapshots,

Maybe some users may want that.