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by lproven 609 days ago
OK, that's perfectly fair. Enjoy! Seriously!

My take is just that, in the 21st century, I do not expect a Linux distro in normal routine use to crash and corrupt its disk. Not _ever._ That was acceptable in the '90s when it was new, but not now.

For the SUSE folks to complain that "U R doin it wrong" doesn't wash.

E.g. for an OS that takes a single-digit number of gigabytes of disk space, a 32GB disk partition should be plenty and it should never fill that up.

I note that recent releases of openSUSE disable Snapper if given a root volume of <= 20GB. Maybe that was due to me and my bug reports. I don't know. It's a rotten answer, though: "OK, this dude's weird usage breaks our snapshot system, so what we'll do is turn it off."

The correct answer is to fix the snapshot system. A better one is to fix the filesystem.