Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Converted EXT4 is Slow to Check Date: 6 May 2026 06:43:24 GMT Lines: 39 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 4MwSPmO0lNIARf28EdX5QwzEfWZ12BsRgcowOPngamU8mUPEer Cancel-Lock: sha1:rZK4Fjn8N6ir8WNy0WHouSAwaK0= sha256:sdHj3KofZ7BOSxi3CNadKbh3j74+TzftJ4cCmIZaXU4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86170 On Wed, 6 May 2026 00:46:23 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 5/5/26 06:11, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> 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. > "Very easily" ??? TimeShift on Ubuntu family distros with btrfs is relatively easy to set up and to roll back. However it is tied in with Ubuntu's way of setting up btrfs and is painful on Fedora or other distros using btrfs. I haven't bothered trying to set it up. Knock on wood I haven't had a box that bricked after an update and I don't fuck around with the OS. Many problems are self inflicted.