Filesystems

[GianPiero Puccioni]

Hi,

I am waiting for delivery of my new laptop, and it comes with SSD, is there a 
"better" filesystem for SSD (or in general).

GiP

[George N. White III]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 05:29, GianPiero Puccioni <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> I am waiting for delivery of my new laptop, and it comes with SSD, is
> there a
> "better" filesystem for SSD (or in general).

Unless you have a special use case or are installing an old version of
Fedora, there
are advantages to sticking with the installer's default filesystem.  Most
new systems
come with SSD, so the defaults should be well suited to newer mainstream
SSD's
and typical usage patterns.

If you stick with a configuration most other users have, it is easier to
sort out any
issues that you might encounter.  Also, your chances that other users with
similar
hardware will have already encountered issues that affect your new system
are
much better.

It is well worth checking for reports of issue with other linux distros on
your
hardware.   Newer laptops often have issues with wifi, sound, and display
drivers.   Many long-time linux users keep a USB wifi wifi dongle and USB
sound devices for use when the available linux drivers won't work.  For
display issues you usually a choice of open source and proprietary
drivers, and many high-end laptops offer two graphics devices (chipset and
a hardware accelerator).  Worst case you may end up with degraded
performance
until you find a proprietary driver that works with your hardware.

[GianPiero Puccioni]

On 7/8/21 4:18 PM, George N. White III wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 05:29, GianPiero Puccioni <[e-mail] 
> > wrote:
> I am waiting for delivery of my new laptop, and it comes with SSD, is there a
> "better" filesystem for SSD (or in general).
>
>
> Unless you have a special use case or are installing an old version of Fedora, 
> there
> are advantages to sticking with the installer's default filesystem.  Most new 
> systems
> come with SSD, so the defaults should be well suited to newer mainstream SSD's
> and typical usage patterns.
>
> If you stick with a configuration most other users have, it is easier to sort 
> out any
> issues that you might encounter.  Also, your chances that other users with similar
> hardware will have already encountered issues that affect your new system are
> much better.
>
> It is well worth checking for reports of issue with other linux distros on your
> hardware.   Newer laptops often have issues with wifi, sound, and display
> drivers.   Many long-time linux users keep a USB wifi wifi dongle and USB
> sound devices for use when the available linux drivers won't work.  For
> display issues you usually a choice of open source and proprietary
> drivers, and many high-end laptops offer two graphics devices (chipset and
> a hardware accelerator).  Worst case you may end up with degraded performance
> until you find a proprietary driver that works with your hardware.
>
> -- 
> George N. White III

Thanks, I'll see what Fedora installer suggests. As for the compatibility I 
chose a Dell that could come with Ubuntu so I hope it will be a good choice,even 
if I got the Win version for other reasons.

GiP

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2021-07-08 at 17:32 +0200, GianPiero Puccioni wrote:
> Thanks, I'll see what Fedora installer suggests. As for the
> compatibility I 
> chose a Dell that could come with Ubuntu so I hope it will be a good
> choice,even 
> if I got the Win version for other reasons.

The F34 Workstation default for a clean install is BTRFS.

poc

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/07/2021 00:26, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-07-08 at 17:32 +0200, GianPiero Puccioni wrote:
> > Thanks, I'll see what Fedora installer suggests. As for the
> > compatibility I
> > chose a Dell that could come with Ubuntu so I hope it will be a good
> > choice,even
> > if I got the Win version for other reasons.
>
> The F34 Workstation default for a clean install is BTRFS.

Additionally, I don't recall which release it was in, now fstrim is enabled by default and run once/week.