Looks like the default installation for openSUSE Leap 15 on AWS is xfs for the / filesystem. I don’t suppose there is an easy way to format to btrfs? Or does anyone know if there is a good reason to keep the AMI on xfs that I’m not seeing?
This is general openSUSE default, not AWS specific.
Isn’t the general default “btrfs” for “/” and “xfs” for “/home”?
Sorry, I misread it. You are right of course.
Yeah the default install from the iso is btrfs for / and xfs for /home.
I was mostly curious if something about the EBS volumes in AWS made xfs more desirable than btrfs. I can put create a data dir with btrfs and mount that where I need it. I’m just a little hesitant since btrfs wasn’t used for the image, and I assume the people who made the AMI chose to use xfs over btrfs.
BTRFS is used mainly as root since it supports snapper which is a roll back scheme. Though BTRFS does support lots of bells an whistles it’s performance in not significantly different for most loads then ext4 or XFS. There may be considerations in the cloud infrastructure that does favor one over the others.:\
You need to provide a link to the specific image you’re referring to on AWS.
I haven’t used AWS in quite awhile,
But I can’t think of any reason for the image to be anyting different than how openSUSE is installed by default, or installed in Xen (which is the virtualization AWS uses).
There is also no reason why you any person can’t create their own image on AWS.
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