Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Converted EXT4 is Slow to Check Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 12:11:24 +0200 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <18a92224dd66560b$121345$2713986$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10st9pn$156i$2@dont-email.me> <10svp5o$3ler1$1@news.xmission.com> <10svt92$p5k9$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net TlYcxTB1lNPCwphFUNg2+gcIryHaLL7kHgDXUz1racEG1gh23p X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:LXhYW9nsmM+Cjysfkkm7t+FKRcE= sha256:UEJqQlLeALr0iCNZpNEXLGHo/5B27fR3wzIJSTLgF2o= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86146 On 2026-05-05 06:52, c186282 wrote: > On 5/4/26 21:22, rbowman wrote: >> On Mon, 4 May 2026 12:41:35 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote: >> >>> I have had an issue with BTRFS in the past, an error which couldn't be >>> corrected. >> >> My first exposure to btrfs was SuSE 13.2. GRUB was not amused. I'm not >> sure if it is even now. The Fedora box is btrfs except for /boot which is >> ext4. > >   In THEORY the 'btrfs' is very good. Alas I keep hearing >   accounts of un-fixable errors that trash everything. > >   Fedora now defaults to btrfs and it's a bit of a >   pain to convince it otherwise. > >   There's not a damned thing wrong with EXT4 and at this >   point it's ultra-reliable and very fixable. The issue is that support thinks you have btrfs, and they tell you to undo to a previous point in the filesystem. You can undo very easily a failed update. Then you tell them "no, I am on ext4" and they grumble. (thinking of openSUSE). >   With the sheer volume and frequent access to data these >   days, as opposed to the old PC days, hyper-reliable is >   absolutely necessary. Even yer humble laptop may read/write >   a petabyte a year depending. It'd better do it RIGHT. > >   IMHO, use EXT4, or maybe XFS if you're moving Big Data. >   ZFS is theoretically good, has some cool features, but >   it's very obese. > -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;