Bug#969516: Debian and Ubuntu developers hesitate and procrastinate with F2FS innovation 13 years

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

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Am 11. Januar 2025 19:37:27 MEZ schrieb Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>:
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>F2FS was designed for raw nand flash drives, not managed flash as an SSD
>is.  It is not tolerant of power failures (so fine on a phone or tablet
>that has battery and knows the power state, not so fine on a generic PC).
>
>On a drive with built in management of the flash, as any SSD used in a
>PC has, ext4 is a much better choice than F2FS with better performance
>and better reliability.
>
>So Debian and Ubuntu have sensibly not bothered to offer the user the
>choice to use a filesystem that would be a terrible idea to use in
>general.
>
>F2FS works just fine when used in the right place, which is on raw
>flash chips on devices with safe power supply.  It does not work well
>in other settings.
>
>So what you read is either wrong, or you didn't understand the conditions
>that were listed as required to make it reliable.
>


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