Just a simple question : Which file system do you recommend for Linux? Ext4…?

EDIT : Thanks to everyone who commented, I think I will try btrfs on my root partition and keep ext4 for my home directory 😃

  • @atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9•7 months ago

    Note that ext4 is damn old and thus also not as performant as more modern ones like btrfs or bcachefs

    This is not true. BTRFS has more features but ext4 is very performant. They’re both similar enough that I promise you that you wouldn’t notice unless you had some very specific use-case that needed to be performance tuned.

    What do you think “being old” has to do with performance?

    • @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      -1•7 months ago

      What do you think “being old” has to do with performance?

      Being tailored to NVMEs or SATA SSDs instead of to HDDs and similar. But I am not sure about which one would be better here.

      Phoronix Benchmark so we have something to look at

      BTRFS seems to be better at multithreading, being outperformed by F2FS (which I forgot to mention, it is used on Android and I would call that damn stable).

      Actually, F2FS seems to be a really good replacement for EXT4, being top in most tests, while having no journaling, while BTRFS in fact worked pretty badly!