**Mark** @archer72 · Mar 21, 2018, 15:33

**Mark** @archer72 · Mar 21, 2018, 15:33

Mark @archer72

@klaatu formatting a drive for Slackware. Best fs? ext4 xfs or another?

**Mark** @archer72 · Mar 21, 2018, 15:38

**Mark** @archer72 · Mar 21, 2018, 15:38

@klaatu

https://mastodon.xyz/media/HZOI_4_abnHetaPELz0

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · Mar 21, 2018, 15:49

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · Mar 21, 2018, 15:49

@archer72 @klaatu #unixporn in thread.

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · Mar 21, 2018, 15:52

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · Mar 21, 2018, 15:52

@archer72 @klaatu ext4 is most stable I believe. Just personal preference for the most part. I like ext2 for boot, zfs for everything else.

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 16:51

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 16:51

@cobra2 @archer72 I found out yesterday that apparently when I updated my workstation to 14.2, I chose btrfs for /home (and then promptly forgot that I did so). I guess I should start messing around with all of its fancy features, whatever the heck they are.

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · 2018-03-21T17:13:32Z

cobra2 (not.main.account) @cobra2

@klaatu @archer72 time to do a bit of reading. As I understand it, #btrfs is the GNU version of #zfs that exists in order to split development of the superior zfs due to the origins of zfs being FOSS but not gnu compatible. Which is why it is not included stock in most Linux distros. (#OpenBSD ftw)

TL;DR: zfs > btrfs

Mar 21, 2018, 17:13 · Amaroq · 0 · 0

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 17:27

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 17:27

@cobra2 Yeah but if ZFS license literally disallows GNU from shipping it, what other solution is there but to develop one's own? I doubt the devs sat around and said "let's split development of ZFS!".

Also, sometimes devs just dev. It's kinda what they do.

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · Mar 21, 2018, 17:33

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · Mar 21, 2018, 17:33

@klaatu that was just me being annoyed with license crap.

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 17:33

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 17:33

@cobra2 I sympathise.

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 17:34

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 17:34

@cobra2 If someone had told me 10 years ago that software licensing would one day become a day-to-day concern of mine, I'd have laughed in their faces.

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 17:28

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 17:28

@cobra2 I of course have no data on btrfs, and honestly my use cases for either zfs or btrfs are pretty much null. I imagine I'd want to test each in a reasonable environment (ie, not as a home user) before deciding.

In other news, CEPH and Gluster are genuinely pretty amazing.

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · Mar 21, 2018, 17:35

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · Mar 21, 2018, 17:35

@klaatu incremental snapshots and virtual raid mirroring is bloody awesome.

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 17:37

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 17:37

@cobra2 I believe you. I do intend to take a look at whatever the btrfs equivs are. And maybe someday I'll get around to trying out zfs, too.

**❦ Billy Blaze ❦** @ckeen@mastodon.social · Mar 21, 2018, 18:41

**❦ Billy Blaze ❦** @ckeen@mastodon.social · Mar 21, 2018, 18:41

@cobra2 @klaatu @archer72 Neither ZFS nor btrfs is included in #OpenBSD...

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 18:44

**notklaatu** @klaatu · Mar 21, 2018, 18:44

@ckeen @cobra2 Yeah, seems like it sorta took hold with the FreeBSD community. Goodness knows they need *something* better than UFS (not sure why they didn't steal FFS from NetBSD, at the very least).

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · Mar 21, 2018, 19:58

**cobra2 (not.main.account)** @cobra2 · Mar 21, 2018, 19:58

@klaatu @ckeen @cobra2 must be freebsd that has it then.