Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:56:21 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote:

Why Debian Installer doesn't change its default filesystem to xfs if it
is better than ext3 / ext4? I think always is better stick to defaults
if it is possible

XFS (and ReiserFS) were having (still have?) problems with GRUB legacy
bootloader so defaulting the filsesystem to any of them could be a bit
"risky".

I mean, not only "performance" is a key factor to determine a default
filesystem :-)

Greetings,

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Camaleón


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