On Tuesday 24 February 2015 07:31:26 Rich Freeman wrote: > In general though there is a reason that sysadmins tend to be very > conservative with filesystems. I doubt most even jumped onto ext4 all > that quickly even though that was very stable from the start of being > declared as such. You really need to look at your use case and > understand the risks and benefits and how you plan to mitigate the > risks. Something being experimental isn't a reason to automatically > avoid using it if it brings some significant benefit to your design, > as long as you've mitigated the risks.
Yes, and that's why I felt the risk justified when I adopted f2fs in that box. It's a LAN server and so doesn't change much, and it's backed up weekly. Well, the web and http-replicator proxies do have constantly changing data of course, but nothing that can't be fetched again cheaply. > And, of course, if your goal is to better understand an experimental > technology in a non-critical setting you should probably just get your > feet wet. Indeed. And I'm sometimes impulsive anyway. I certainly didn't conduct a formal risk assessment. (<tabloid> Shock! Horror! </tabloid>) :-) -- Rgds Peter.
