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Hello again world!
Finally got around to reinstalling #Gentoo on my main workstation. The last install was old enough that the ::gentoo tree still lived in /usr/portage!
Also ditched x11 (I'll miss you #i3), jumping into #sway land (might take hikari for a spin). The root partition is also xfs now instead of ext4 (check out https://social.treehouse.systems/@thesamesam/110626061537634143)
Treehouse Mastodonsam (@thesamesam@treehouse.systems)Today, we changed the default recommended filesystem in the #gentoo handbook from ext4 to xfs.
XFS is robust and has all the niceties of ext4 (modulo shrinking) but with modern features on top.
(It helps that `xfsprogs` doesn't have weird endianness bugs too..)
btrfs is of course another option for the future but our users are conservative in some respects, and baby steps > none.
The main benefit of this is reflinks and `copy_file_range` which automatically takes advantage of that.
Now, as for using it.. 🧵