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0 pointssevg1y ago0 comments

Same port and USB stick worked fine with XFS and ext4.

Tried again with btrfs and hard freezes again.

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>Same port and USB stick worked fine with XFS and ext4.

None of those file systems are not comparable to BTRFS since they're not COW. BTRFS isn't for crappy USB drives since it has a lot more overhead than EXT4 and XFS which the controllers and flash chips in junky USB drives can't handle.

sevgOP1y ago

It's not a crappy USB drive. It's a high-end high-performance Sandisk USB drive.

Regardless, I still expect the choice of filesystem to not hard freeze my OS.

I've had janky crappy USB drives before and with any other filesystem reads/writes might fail but I don't get a hard freeze.

One could argue it could be a bug in the Linux USB stack rather than a bug in the btrfs kernel driver. But what I do know is that when I pick btrfs I get problems.

Rinzler891y ago

>It's a high-end high-performance Sandisk USB drive

That doesn't mean much. How high end? USB thumb drives are still much slower than SSDs or even HDDs.

>Regardless, I still expect the choice of filesystem to not hard freeze my OS.

That's a very particular filesystem, that's not designed for such hardware. OF course you'll run into issues. The FS expects data at a throughput that the ARM controller in the USB thumb drive can't deliver. OF course it will have issues.

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Rinzler891y ago

>Same port and USB stick worked fine with XFS and ext4.

sevgOP1y ago

It's not a crappy USB drive. It's a high-end high-performance Sandisk USB drive.

Regardless, I still expect the choice of filesystem to not hard freeze my OS.

I've had janky crappy USB drives before and with any other filesystem reads/writes might fail but I don't get a hard freeze.

One could argue it could be a bug in the Linux USB stack rather than a bug in the btrfs kernel driver. But what I do know is that when I pick btrfs I get problems.

Rinzler891y ago

>It's a high-end high-performance Sandisk USB drive

That doesn't mean much. How high end? USB thumb drives are still much slower than SSDs or even HDDs.

>Regardless, I still expect the choice of filesystem to not hard freeze my OS.

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