bug#40236: closed ([PATCH] doc: Suggest Btrfs with compression instead of ext4 for root partition.)

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> [PATCH] doc: Suggest Btrfs with compression instead of ext4 for root partition.
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> Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:35:24 +0100
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> * gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl: Adjust root file-system to use Btrfs.
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>  gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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> diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
> index 3931bad60d..e61e8064cd 100644
> --- a/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
> +++ b/gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl
> @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
>                   (list (file-system
>                           (device (file-system-label "my-root"))
>                           (mount-point "/")
> -                         (type "ext4")
> +                         (type "btrfs")
> +                         (options "subvol=rootfs,compress=zstd")
>                           (dependencies mapped-devices))
>                         (file-system
>                           (device (uuid "1234-ABCD" 'fat))
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> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:
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> >>   Some file systems, such as Btrfs, support compression, which is
> >>   reported to nicely complement file deduplication that the daemon
> >>   performs independently of the file system (@pxref{Invoking
> >>   guix-daemon}).
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> > Looks good to me!  Do you want to proceed and add it then?
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> I pushed something in b6c445931e85c07286a79bc9c80fdc956d58b1e2.
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> I suggest we revisit the question of the default/recommended file system
> in several months, a year or so.
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> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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