Lazy8s Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Regarding a new Opensuse 13.2 install...I ran across TweakHound's writeup on this subject and it's left me with the obvious question. Now, he makes it perfectly clear he is not an expert, and I am even less so, but I do think I understand his point. I want this next install once my newly ordered laptop arrives, to be "permanent"...so I'm hoping for some insight. As always, thanks for replies and knowledge sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 The biggest advantage from what I read about it is resistance from bit rot/file corruption, a trick I wish NTFS would pick up at some point. I personally haven't run into the problem, but as my data grows larger, so does the possibility. Lazy8s 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted June 21, 2015 Veteran Share Posted June 21, 2015 btrfs is "better", but not as mature as ext4 (Because it's based off ext3). If you keep backups you'll be fine, but there aren't many tools (last I checked) that could repair btrfs in case of an error. You can do a online conversion from ext4 to brtfs iirc, so you can change if you want. Lazy8s 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazy8s Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Good points both. I'll only be maintaining about 100Gb of material, not much by some standards, but it's important to me. I'd like to be able to easily repair corrupt data if it happens. Regular backups will be a regular routine too. I might be wrong on this one, but I also tend to equate maturity with stability. If that's the case, EXT4 "should" be more stable, but BTRFS resistance to corruption may balance that out? Thanks again for the help folks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 afair btrfs let's you keep several versions of a file and makes it easy to restore the one you need. performance maybe not yet on ext4 level though. Lazy8s 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 This is worth a read http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/ Lazy8s 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazy8s Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 This is worth a read http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/bitrot-and-atomic-cows-inside-next-gen-filesystems/ I can't believe I understood all of that! Thank you, and that article is my decision maker. Btrfs it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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