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 😃

  • Communist@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    I use f2fs on ssd’s and ext4 on hdd’s

    I don’t see the need for snapshots, I backup externally

    • toastal
      2·
      7 months ago

      SSDs* HDDs*

      f2fs does one of the weirdest things with compression by default: the files are compressed but they still take up the same amount of blocks as the uncompressed files. This can get you the slight performance boost of compressed files, but doesn’t actually save you space which is an odd choice. You can enable a flag in the kernel but it has other effects as well.

    • NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca
      1·
      7 months ago

      f2fs doesn’t track file creation times. I thought I was ok with this, but, the longer I used it the more places it started to become an issue. Now I have all these notes that were created in 1970 and it just really takes away a powerful way of searching and organizing my notes.