[Nottingham] I knew I'd forget something last night (filesystems and partitions)

[J J]

Requirements are pretty light TBH, it'll be used as a host KVMs and then
transitioning to Docker/Kubernetes. Any demand should be light.

Did a bit more reading and I think I'll just stick with boring old Ext4.

J.

On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 18:00, Martin via Nottingham <
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> I'll let others more fully comment first.
>
>
> Brief notes:
>
> I have a prejudice against the workings of XFS and ZFS...
>
>
> For booting up a root partition, you can have complete freedom by using
> for example a 256MByte /boot partition using ext4. (That can be smaller
> if not using a initrd, needs to be 512MByte or so for some bloated
> distros.)
>
> For current SSDs, there's no concern for wear levelling and so there is
> no special concerns to favour using F2FS.
>
>
> The big question is... What features/usage do you need?
>
>
> Have fun!
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
> On 15/05/2020 13:00, J J via Nottingham wrote:
> > I want to start setting this server up. /, /home etc are on an SSD and
> > chucking the whole of /var onto a logical volume sat on RAID1.Maybe not
> > the most efficient use of space (I could have more partitions
> > but...well...I like a simple life).
> >
> > Anyhoo, then the question of filesystems comes up; BTRFS, Ext4, or XFS?
> > On the SSD F2FS would probably be best, but it's not an option in the
> > installer (simple life, see) and I had thought of going BTRFS but:
> >
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-50-filesystems&num=1
> > So it came down to Ext4 Vs XFS.
> >
> > I've plumped for XFS for no real reason other than "Never used it
> > before" and "Seems it might be a smidge faster".
> >
> > There's nothing critical on here yet, but is going with XFS madness? I
> > was worried about RAM, but it seems it's not too bad. ZFS is totally out
> > of the question as I simply don't have the RAM for it.
> >
> > J.
> >
>
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