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[PATCH] doc: Suggest Btrfs with compression instead of ext4 for root partition.

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Message #123 received at 40236-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de>,
 40236-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>,
 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bug#40236] [PATCH] doc: Suggest Btrfs with compression instead
 of ext4 for root partition.
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 22:00:58 +0200

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

>>   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}).
>
> Looks good to me!  Do you want to proceed and add it then?

I pushed something in b6c445931e85c07286a79bc9c80fdc956d58b1e2.

I suggest we revisit the question of the default/recommended file system
in several months, a year or so.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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