[arch-general] Adding new partition to system from unpartitioned space - any reason to not use ext4??

[David C. Rankin]

Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Delayed allocation might lead to data loss of recently created or
> overwritten files in case of power failure or system freeze. The most
> common case of overwriting files in badly written programs has been
> worked around in ext4, but theoretically it might still happen
> (witnessed by a file with size 0 after power loss or otherwise unclean
> shutdown). The same is the case for xfs or btrfs though. You can disable
> delayed allocation, but that will negate one of the performance
> improvements in ext4 compared to ext3.
> 

Thomas,

	Thank you. That's exactly the type information I was looking for. Since this
Arch box is my home server I'll give ext4 a shot. Since this thing functions
under a light load and has about 30 minutes of battery backup I should be fine.
I'll pass along any anomalies -> hopefully you won't see any ext4 message
subjects from me later...

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