On 8/28/19 3:13 PM, pmkellly(a)frontier.com wrote:
I've probably misunderstood some of this. Please feel free to let me know where my
mistakes are.
The btrfs filesystem has been in development for years. It entered into the kernel
in 2009. Red Hat even had an engineer working on it, but he left to go work at other
large tech firms. Red Hat has not replaced him.
As far as the technical side of things btrfs sounds better, but in reality it still
has teething issues. I've been bit by data loss by it and haven't used it since.
There are other, more interesting filesystems that should be given attention to
instead. The f2fs file system comes to mind. At the end of the day any of the top
choices (ext4, xfs, f2fs, btrfs) are indistinguishable for desktop users with the
advent of SSD / NVME drives. Pick a widely supported one (ext4, xfs) and forget
about it.
Anyways, welcome to Fedora. Large discussion threads are a once a quarter type of
adventure so do not feel too overwhelmed.
Regards,
Michael