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Which file system do you recommend for Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 😃

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Upvoted. Not everyone wants to rely on backups and restore broken system every month like on BTRFS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We're not in 2014 anymore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

File system is a core component of any electronic system. Even if it's just 1% less stable than other ones, it's still less stable. Maybe it's faster in some cases and supports better backups but ehh idk if it's worth it. Losing documents is something you probably want to avoid at all costs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it isn't noticeably "less stable" if at all anymore* unless you mean stable as in "essentially in maintenance mode", and clearly good enough for SLES to make it the default. Stop spreading outdated FUD and make backups regularly if you care about your documents (ext4 won't save you from disk failure either which is probably the more likely scenario).

* not talking about the RAID 5/6 modes, but those are explicitly marked unstable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My short BTRFS history

Installed on a 1TB NVME
used for 2 years
Rebased my system a ton, used rpm-ostree a ton (which uses BTRFS for the snapshots I think?)
Physically broke the SSD by bending (lol used a silicon cooler pad but it bent it) which resulted in hardware crashes
With dd barely managed to get all the data onto a 1TB SATA SSD
dd-ed the SATA SSD onto a 2TB NVME
deleted and restored the MBR, resized the BTRFS partition to max, resized the BTRFS filesystem to max, balanced it

Still works, never had a single failure

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I disagree. My partition is ext4, but Timeshift saved my ass when an upgrade went wrong. I just had to restore the system from a previous snapshot taken before the upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course updates can break stuff. What I don't understand is why would you intentionally go for a less stable FS that can break and corrupt all files? It's especially bad on old machines with limited space where full backups are not possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Are you talking about ext4 or BTRFS?