Re: [BackupPC-users] considerations on i-nodes

[Michael S. <mic...@me...>]

On 2018-04-19 06:31, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Michael Stowe wrote:
> 
>> ... Those who do reach back a decade or more to select a filesystem,
> 
> That's like saying the Linux kernel is a hangover from the end of the
> 20th century.  It's misleading, and more than a bit unfair especially
> considering the numbers of posts to the ext4 mailing list:
> 
> https://u2182357.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=rBK8reUlX8Sxr7Iz1fV-2F7RuEFgozAWvnlNmELy4oKuiA3Uh2zVaVksANvOXpuehpkneX0E-2FfKBOjzEo25YDMGw-3D-3D_OypFYCWzG5ApGW-2FFpGTxc4RCS9eud0Dl1htN5rYoUZ8To4zeNUFBkAGI3hzer91CasKnxVRTUBW0lnnPUiBFDbnzrPzFGfYmk0Iwn1duJneKWemz0bfm83-2Fl8P8pIa0YGeA8QAnhxRLigz6DuEWH0WyS6jHH3rHg5QJhsnUJVs1DRyBbhwrZ-2FLQ9SNo7ZD6ANz0-2BbsyrFGuo-2FUHmLHgg9NSil8n8wpRXy0GiOoHi4bIQ3Lhx4MOCnpVaarfVSQNm

While there's nothing inherently wrong with selecting an older 
filesystem, ext4's design decision of backward compatibility has 
essentially set some of its limitations in stone.  (Your article below 
elaborates on this point; it's not a next generation filesystem, it's 
just something that works.)

>> I generally expect to have good reason ...
> 
> Like, er, it works, it's currently under active development, and it's
> supported by every Linux distribution you're likely to meet? :)
> 
> Yes, even the developers will agree that it's a stop-gap measure.
> 
> But it's a big gap, and the rest of them haven't quite plugged it yet:
> 
> https://u2182357.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=rBK8reUlX8Sxr7Iz1fV-2F7UY4nHmLotbnt-2B5EKj0ng5UcSekH-2BHZpU1dS98SsvUShSx4-2BUbCV8Vb8B6dBgin8IA-3D-3D_OypFYCWzG5ApGW-2FFpGTxc4RCS9eud0Dl1htN5rYoUZ8To4zeNUFBkAGI3hzer91CasKnxVRTUBW0lnnPUiBFDZN1h9k4ItyZ8gGNYlU-2B0dRBvelHnc-2BeUkG1G6dU7PDf-2FElfMd2R-2FZAdFHXec7SgsItHvPTxrnMLjr3JiKAKszqOf3OTw4zwTUilcgLC8kMmaSdKlN7-2BtdgplPjuEfgnssjx7gIlgRgctYxuXZesbWmzum-2FxNj24SzlNV-2FxfC2p7

I don't think we're disagreeing, but I note that I'm specifically not 
talking about what filesystem one might select for a disposable Linux 
system and whatever came with the distro, but presumably a backup system 
from which one wants to store and recover files, into which one 
presumably would wish to select something most appropriate to the task, 
and "I want to futz around with inode allocations" is rarely at the top 
of people's to do lists.