[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Sun, 2024-05-05 at 18:04 +0100, John Dallman 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 anotherfriend 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. 

btrfs may be better now, but I too find ext4 serves my purposes well
enough for day to day use, and keep ZFS for backup/archival purposes.
Life's too short. 
-- 
Tactical Nuclear Kittens