[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[John Dallman]

In article <fd016548559cb3c8fca2ab4f538153127cfe42c9.camel at munted.eu>,
alex.buell at munted.eu (Single Stage to Orbit) wrote:

> My experience with btrfs was awful. It's fortunate I only tested it 
> and took backups, and it kept losing data. Turned to ZFS and it has
been
> rock solid. Ten years. 

I had significant trouble with the version in RHEL7/CentOS7, where it was
the default root filesystem. It's still the default on SUSE Enterprise.
My local Linux expert tells me that it's been fixed now, although another
friend who spent some years working for SUSE disagrees. 

I had Android devices connected to a CentOS 7.9 machine, which did
Android builds, and staged data to be pushed onto the devices. When the
data set to be pushed was large (more than a few GB), btrfs would often
decide that it had run out of space, with more than 70% of a 1TB volume
still free according to df. An fsck would fix the problem, but it would
reoccur a few days or weeks later. 

My conclusion was that since I was moving to a new Rocky 8.9 machine
before CentOS 7.9 ran out of support, I'd have my staging area as ext4,
please, and that has been entirely satisfactory. I was quite happy that
it was removed from RHEL/Rocky/Alma 8.x; even if it is fixed now, it has
a bad reputation. 

John