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[bug#50768] [PATCH] installer: Reorder file system type listbox.


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: [bug#50768] [PATCH] installer: Reorder file system type listbox.
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 20:41:53 +0200

Ludo',

Ludovic Courtès 写道:
I’ve seen Keyras mention such a problem here, but again, I have not seen
“regular bug reports”.

I've seen enough. s/bug reports/worried questions, not always prior to messing with file system options/ for accuracy.

Are there open bug reports about ext4 issues?
As in issues: no idea. I would expect them to be closed, so it's not much of a metric.

What I do regularly see is rants about ext4 :-), which might be
justified, but in my many years with a store I have never had problems with ext4. Also, the deduplication code gracefully handles ENOSPC on
/gnu/store/.links.

The kernel doesn't discriminate and logs warnings. Several people do notice these, don't realise that they are ‘harmless’, and follow some on-line tutorial to enable large_dir. Which apparently breaks GRUB.

None of this is Guix's fault.  It does happen.

I'm not happy with this patch: it's the tiniest possible tweak and puts a lot of implicit meaning into the default ordering.

I didn't find a good way to dynamically display a description of each file system, but I wouldn't know what kind of Newt UI primitives/concepts to search for.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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