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  • F2FS Tools 1.9 Released With Encryption & More

    Phoronix: F2FS Tools 1.9 Released With Encryption & More

    An updated version of the user-space F2FS (Flash Friendly File-System) utilities was quietly released a few weeks back...

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    Is it possible to chose this file system during the installation of any linux operating system into an usb drive (3.0/3.1 version)?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Azrael5 View Post
      Is it possible to chose this file system during the installation of any linux operating system into an usb drive (3.0/3.1 version)?
      afaik only on Antergos (arch linux derivative) and maybe other Arch distros, and of course Arch and Gentoo proper.

      And even then you need to either patch GRUB bootloader or keep the kernel in the EFI partition (or do a /boot partition formatted as ext4 or whatever), or use rEFInd + f2fs efi driver from efi.akeo.ie, as so far the f2fs patch for GRUB isn't merged yet for some reason.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
        afaik only on Antergos (arch linux derivative) and maybe other Arch distros, and of course Arch and Gentoo proper.

        And even then you need to either patch GRUB bootloader or keep the kernel in the EFI partition (or do a /boot partition formatted as ext4 or whatever), or use rEFInd + f2fs efi driver from efi.akeo.ie, as so far the f2fs patch for GRUB isn't merged yet for some reason.
        so what is the benefit of an excellent file system a user cannot use?

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        • #5
          Azrael5

          What do you mean cannot use? I use it. You can use it on any distribution you like, just not during the installation. The major distro's landed on XFS/BTRFS though which are both excellent choices.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Azrael5 View Post
            so what is the benefit of an excellent file system a user cannot use?
            Samsung made it (and keeps developing it) for Android.
            It is being deployed in Android phones, like from Huawei http://consumer.huawei.com/us/phones/mate9/performance/
            Motorola and others. OnePlus phones also tried to but was unstable (probably backport issues, not f2fs itself).

            It seems no Samsung phones use f2fs yet, so I assume they think it's not ready yet.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Azrael5 View Post
              Is it possible to chose this file system during the installation of any linux operating system into an usb drive (3.0/3.1 version)?
              KDE Partition Manager supports F2FS, and hence Calamares installer can use F2FS too.

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              • #8
                F2FS is very performant, using it two systems with ssd, only drawback power outage(immediate) can cause problems.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Azrael5 View Post
                  so what is the benefit of an excellent file system a user cannot use?
                  You can use it.
                  You just can't boot from it.
                  And the reason you can't boot from it, it's because there hasn't been a new version of GRUB since this FS became stable.
                  Next GRUB version (2.0) will probably have this and you'll be able to boot from it.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by nomadewolf View Post

                    You can use it.
                    You just can't boot from it.
                    And the reason you can't boot from it, it's because there hasn't been a new version of GRUB since this FS became stable.
                    Next GRUB version (2.0) will probably have this and you'll be able to boot from it.
                    I hope the new grub will provide this possibility, thanks.

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