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Frankly, if you get too confused by which version of Fedora to pick, you probably shouldn't be running Fedora. Fedora is very user friendly, until it isn't. I
by _mlbt 2y ago
Frankly, if you get too confused by which version of Fedora to pick, you probably shouldn't be running Fedora. Fedora is very user friendly, until it isn't. It's my favorite desktop Linux distro, however, the bleeding edge nature of it can definitely bite you sometimes. Fedora is the only distro I've ever used that irreparably corrupted the filesystem with just normal usage. There was no interruption to power or me running any software from outside of the official repos, just a kernel panic out of nowhere and a failed fsck on reboot. To be fair, this was several versions ago, back when it was still Fedora "Core" and I've had only minor, but fixable issues since.
Another issue for newbies is that the vast majority of third party software and tutorials that you'll find on the internet assume an Ubuntu or Debian system that you need the expertise to sometimes "translate" into Fedora/Red Hat.
- Yasuraka 2y agoWas it on btrfs by any chance? I've burned my fingers once on it and recommend xfs ever since, no issues so far.
- binkHN 2y agoWhy xfs over the more popular ext4?
- bityard 2y agoNot who you are replying to, but I used XFS extensively in production workloads because at the time it had a few features I needed that ext4 didn't have. (I want to say one of them was support for 64-bit inodes? I don't really recall now.) And most importantly no waiting for the system to fsck on a large or slow filesystem that was unmounted uncleanly by a power or system failure. At the time, XFS was also a bit faster than ext4 but I'm not sure if that's still true. The differences between the two are fewer these days but it's still a great general-purpose workhorse filesystem.
- Yasuraka 2y agoxfs is high performance and also rock-solid, I picked it for servers and like to be consistent in my experience, I never shrink volumes and to be frank I am a bit of a hipster/eternal contrarian.
- bravetraveler 2y agoreflinks, cheap/easy dedupe in a sense.
- _mlbt 2y agoIt was ext3 if I remember correctly. I usually stick to the default file system unless I have a really good reason to do otherwise.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agobtrfs has been the default on Fedora for a while. Ext4 was the default before that. So if it was ext3 days that's been a long time ago.
- spwa4 2y agoI switched to Reiserfs and actually stuck with it until ... never had the data loss issues.
- IWeldMelons 2y agoCan relate fedora borked my btrfs twice. I do not use either anymore. Debian+ext4 or Freebsd+zfs depending on purpose.
- Melonai 2y agoInteresting..! I've had something very similar happen on Fedora running btrfs, too.. No hardware failures (drive was great, still run it to this day a year later), no kernel panics, the partition just stopped booting out of the blue, with the rescue shell also being completely broken. I think I almost managed to get some of my files back, but after an error on my part it corrupted itself to the degree where the only answer you could find online was something like "just give up, no one can help you now :(". Lost a bunch of important data and still a bit mad about it, but at least now I'm back on NixOS with ext4 with no issues so far!
- creatonez 2y ago> back when it was still Fedora "Core" This was an extremely long time ago.