Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 feb 20, 17:55:52, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the current > consensus of the best file system to use for general data usage? I have been > using xfs but that is based on info from many years ago. If yo

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Tom Dial
On 2/13/20 14:50, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 01:57:49PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote: >> XFS is excellent, and so also is JFS. > > Yes on XFS, no on JFS. (XFS is very actively developed; JFS is moribund, > has no really compelling benefits over other filesytems, and gets much >

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 04:00:34PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote: > I think that ZFS, although different, is no less complicated or > inflexible than the other identified options. Adding mdraid > probably would not decrease complexity. It is far easier to reshape mdraid arrays (in terms of number

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Tom Dial
On 2/13/20 10:31, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 05:55:52PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: >> I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the current >> consensus of the best file system to use for general data usage? > >

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 01:57:49PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote: XFS is excellent, and so also is JFS. Yes on XFS, no on JFS. (XFS is very actively developed; JFS is moribund, has no really compelling benefits over other filesytems, and gets much less testing due to very low adoption. I don't

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Tom Dial
On 2/13/20 06:53, Didar Hossain wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:18:42PM +0100, deloptes wrote: >> Dennis Wicks wrote: >> >>> I have been using xfs but that is based on info >>> from many years ago. >> >> If you have had no issues with xfs, why not use it in the future too? > > I have been

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread deloptes
Didar Hossain wrote: > I have been using XFS for data on dual HDD (RAID1->LVM->LUKS->XFS) on > Debian Stretch for more than a year, haven't experienced issues yet. OS is > on Ext4 on SDD. I use Urbackup (www.urbackup.org) to backup multiple > Windows machines to this box as well as Samba for

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Dennis, On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 05:55:52PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the current > consensus of the best file system to use for general data usage? If your 4TB isn't composed of at least one more drive for redundancy then for

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread Didar Hossain
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:18:42PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Dennis Wicks wrote: > > > I have been using xfs but that is based on info > > from many years ago. > > If you have had no issues with xfs, why not use it in the future too? I have been using XFS for data on dual HDD

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-13 Thread deloptes
Dennis Wicks wrote: > I have been using xfs but that is based on info > from many years ago. If you have had no issues with xfs, why not use it in the future too?

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-12 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 13/02/2020 12:55, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the current consensus of the best file system to use for general data usage? I have been using xfs but that is based on info from many years ago. With apologies to Samuel L Jackson (as Beaumont

Re: Best file system to use?

2020-02-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-02-12 15:55, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the current consensus of the best file system to use for general data usage? I have been using xfs but that is based on info from many years ago. I was using btrfs for system drives (boot, swap

Best file system to use?

2020-02-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have 4TB running on an AMD Ryzen under Buster. What is the current consensus of the best file system to use for general data usage? I have been using xfs but that is based on info from many years ago. Many TIA! Dennis