Btrfs & Dolphin
I just read an article in Linux Pro magazine (entitled "New Butter")
about Btrfs. It ended rather enigmatically with a warning that "Btrfs
does not integrate well with graphical file managers."
This confuses me. I'd think that a file manager should operate pretty
much independently of the file system and vice versa providing that the
file system implements the basic Unix-type services (ownership,
permissions, hierarchical directory structure, etc.). Can anyone
elaborate on what the author may have been alluding to?
I am running Debian/Stretch with the KDE/Plasma5 desktop and use Dolphin
quite a bit. Btrfs is supposedly stable and offers features that could
be quite useful to me. I've been considering switching from Ext4 for a
while but don't have any compelling reasons to do so if the switch could
cause problems with my normal workflow - such as not being able to use
Dolphin.
Thanks in advance for any clarifications you can provide.
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