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    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    In practice BTRFS is a bit faster and on a Distro like Fedora or Opensuse they already integrate it to do system backups while running (copy on write).

    In practice it just works and you dont use all the fancy possibilities, because a majority of the Linux world still sticks with ext4 for whatever reason, so Filemanagers and backup tools wouldnt reach everyone.

    Its a perfect example of Linux slowing down itself by desperately refusing to change

    • Xorg
    • old Desktops
    • old software, system packages, damn appimages
    • no automatic updates
    • ext4 instead of something modern

    Ext4 is from 2008. BTRFS is even older from 2007, but was only declared stable in 2013. More innovation, more testing time, more "dont use it yet, it is unstable". Ext4 probably never was as they didnt try that much.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

    I have heard good things about ZFS as well, but that is mostly for servers?