kixik ,

How about bcachefs. I'm waiting for it to support swapfiles, which seems to be in the TODO list, but so far doesn't work. If you use swap partition[s], or prefer not to have swap at all (I never fell for this, and besides swap is required for hibernation if that's a thing for you), then bcachefs is ready for you. It's already part of linux since 6.7, and on Artix, current linux is 6.8.9...

To me is the FS to use. I'm still on luks + ext4 (no LVM) and do entire home backups with plain rsync to an external device. I'd have to learn new stuff, since ext4 is really basic and easy to configure if in need, but I think bcachefs is worth it, and as mentioned, just waiting for it to support swapfiles, :)

Kajika ,

Thank you for sharing this. I didn't know this FS yet. It seems new and have some nice goals. I always have a grudge against zfs/btrfs because of the resource usage/performance.

I'll keep an eye on this. I'd love to find some benchmarks.

toastal ,

Not yet, but bcachefs will be the future as the goals replicate most of OpenZFS while not having that licencing issue.

bjoern_tantau ,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Just go with whatever is the default of your distribution.

That said I've come to love the automatic snapshots OpenSUSE gives me with BTRFS. I think they use snapper to automate that. It does a snapshot before and after every packet install, update or removal. And it has some system to delete snapshots that aren't needed anymore but it always keeps enough to give you peace of mind, especially when you're experimenting.

I should look into keeping some snapshots of my ~ as well. And I should implement that especially for my family.

kurcatovium ,
@kurcatovium@lemm.ee avatar

Snapper is life saver. I don't get it why nobody else use it by default, it's so great. It saved me many times. My coworker, who happens to be kind of non-linux user forced there by MS bullshit, uses Ubuntu and she's got to problems so many times, and all those would be couple clicks repair with Snapper...

savvywolf ,
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

For standard use, ext4. If you want to tinker and use fancy features, btrfs (or maybe zfs?).

qui ,
@qui@lemmy.world avatar

I prefer using ext4 for stability. But if stability doesn't matter to you, you should use BTRFS.

hperrin ,

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.

therealjcdenton ,
@therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip avatar

Do what OpenSUSE Tumbleweed suggests, make a brtfs partition for your system and xfs/ext4 for home parition

mholiv ,

Btrfs or XFS.

No idea why people are into EXT4. XFS is more performant by far.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

XFS is good but dated

mholiv , (edited )

I agree that’s why most of my systems run btrfs. (Maybe soon bcachefs).

But XFS is in the same tier of “datedness” as EXT4, just with more performance. Some apps like ScyllaDB actually require XFS performance crazily enough.

KindaABigDyl ,
@KindaABigDyl@programming.dev avatar

Ext4 is, afaik, the fastest as it's the most understood

Btrfs has compression and you can make snapshots to roll back to if something goes wrong (not necessary on immutable distros or NixOS tho)

There are many other options, but I've only ever had a need for those two

refreeze ,
@refreeze@lemmy.world avatar

btrfs snapshots are still useful on immutable distros to recover accidentally deleted data.

KindaABigDyl ,
@KindaABigDyl@programming.dev avatar

True, but with files, you really benefit from the speed that ext4 provides

penquin ,
@penquin@lemm.ee avatar

I have 3 drives in my pc. I have btrfs for root so I can do my snapshots, and the rest are on ext4. I've heard very good things about xfs, too, but I'm more familiar with btrfs and ext4

SteveTech ,

I've got a similar setup, but my non-root SSDs are F2FS.

pastermil ,

How's F2FS been treating you? I've been wanting to get into that. Also, why not for your rootfs?

SteveTech ,

I haven't had any issues with it so far, but I like having snapshots incase I need to rollback an update or something so that's why BTRFS.

penquin ,
@penquin@lemm.ee avatar

I absolutely love my set up. The non root drives are strictly read only since they're mostly to save my games and personal data. Data doesn't really move around much there, so ext4 is working perfectly for me.

Zoidberg ,

I love zfs. Started using it for my data storage pool and now I have it on root as well. It has some rough edges but overall it is very stable and has amazing features.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

I've had it break on none TrueNAS systems.

You999 ,

ZFS is amazing but i wish it's support for flash was better. I'm not sure if ZFS will ever be able to fully utilize flash since ZFS was designed around spinning disks and the pitfalls they provide. Maybe at some point F2FS will catch on...

atzanteol ,

If you don't care any will do. ext4 is fine but check the "use LVM" button during install if you do go with ext4 since it will give you better partitioning options later.

john89 ,

ext4, just keep it simple.

Rustmilian ,
@Rustmilian@lemmy.world avatar

BTRFS &/OR EXT4

TheAnonymouseJoker ,

EXT4 for Linux. exFAT for removable drives. Never regretted.

I am not interested in fancy technologies. EXT2/3/4 has been here for a few decades.

LeFantome ,

No love for bcachefs?

kixik ,

Uff, somehow missed your post. See mine. That's the FS I'm hoping to use next. I'm waiting for it to support swapfile, or alternatively read from official sources they won't ever support it, :). But yes, that's the one I'm looking forward to use.

pastermil ,

Chill. That thing just hit the mainline.

downhomechunk ,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

Thank you brave pioneers. I just felt confident to switch to btrfs last year.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Don't use it quite yet

FractalsInfinite ,

Why not? It seems to be working fine.

nexussapphire ,

Let me install it on my main PC, the one I do work on.

OneRedFox ,
@OneRedFox@beehaw.org avatar

It'll probably be my favorite filesystem in 2030.

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