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 😃

  • boredsquirrel
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    18 months ago

    Edit: BTRFS has advantages that likely make it better for me.

    It has compression and allows flexible partition sizes. The compression may explain the speed decreases.

    • Eager Eagle
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      18 months ago

      Compression might be useful in some cases, but the bulk of my data is already compressed or not much compressible (think videos, images, compressed archives, game assets). So the trade off doesn’t make much sense to me.

      • boredsquirrel
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        18 months ago

        That is true, not for Flatpaks but for sure.

        I wonder how much of a pain it would be not having BTRFS subvolumes on atomic Fedora. Will try F2FS in a VM.