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 😃

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’ve been very happy with btrfs. Ext4 is basically rock solid, so you can’t really go wrong with it, but btrfs has some nice features that ext4 doesn’t have, like snapshots. And it’s fast. I have an extremely cheap SSD that’s too slow to run anything with ext4, but actually usable with btrfs.

    • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      btrfs is objectively slower than ext4. It is CoW and maintains more complex metadata.

      Only situations it wins is when lots of copies are made at once. Not a super common workflow compared to writes imo.