Which filesystem will you use for root on your next Slackware installation?

H_TeXMeX_H · 09-25-2012, 02:36 AM

I will use JFS as usual. Maybe when btrfs gets a working fsck I will try it.

guanx · 09-25-2012, 05:29 AM

aufs3 (tmpfs over squashfs in ext2).

TobiSGD · 09-25-2012, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

I will use JFS as usual. Maybe when btrfs gets a working fsck I will try it.

It have at least a not very well tested version now: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index....k_like_tool.3F

H_TeXMeX_H · 09-25-2012, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

It have at least a not very well tested version now: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index....k_like_tool.3F

Yes, but it is experimental. I will wait a bit.

chrisretusn · 09-25-2012, 09:19 AM

I prefer jfs, also use ext4. I have more that one Slackware (almost 14.0) install.

foobarz · 09-25-2012, 10:01 AM

If you use XFS you got to be really careful that you never write a boot sector to the XFS partition, based on what I have read some. XFS uses the partition right from the very first sector, and so writing a boot sector like with lilo by mistake will destroy the XFS filesystem. I don't think ext4 has this gotcha.

Didier Spaier · 09-25-2012, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by guanx

aufs3 (tmpfs over squashfs in ext2).

I didn't include it in the list as it is not shipped in Slackware (it's not included in kernels provided by Linus), let alone proposed by Slackware's installer. The same would apply to Reiser4, though nobody mentioned it in this thread (yet).

alekow · 09-25-2012, 12:24 PM

I was a happy user of reiserfs for few years - never experienced any serious problems. Few weeks ago I reformatted my root partition to ext4 after reading a thread about above-mentioned filesystems on LQ. Time will show if it was a right move. I'm still using reiserfs for my home partition.
I choose ext4, although I probably won't install 14.0 from scratch (I'm using current right now).

sparkyhall · 09-25-2012, 01:40 PM

Been using ext4 without issue since the release of 13.37 so I see no reason to change.

TLE · 09-25-2012, 02:34 PM

ext4

in the past I used Reiserfs

markush · 09-25-2012, 05:07 PM

I've always been using the ext-filesystems beginning with ext2 back in the old days. So I will stay with ext4 when I perform fresh installs with the new Slackware-14.

Markus

FeyFre · 09-25-2012, 05:59 PM

Yet another poll of such question.

Depending on situation: on isolated system - ReiserFS, if Windows is neighbour - ext3.

Didier Spaier · 09-25-2012, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by FeyFre

on isolated system - ReiserFS, if Windows is neighbour - ext3.

Out of curiosity : why different choices depending on that?

D1ver · 09-25-2012, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by foobarz

If you use XFS you got to be really careful that you never write a boot sector to the XFS partition, based on what I have read some. XFS uses the partition right from the very first sector, and so writing a boot sector like with lilo by mistake will destroy the XFS filesystem. I don't think ext4 has this gotcha.

For my own peace of mind, installing lilo to the MBR avoids this issue, correct?

dsotm · 09-25-2012, 06:55 PM

ext4 just because I've never used anything else