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

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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] -9 points 6 months ago (4 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] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Are you talking about ext4 or BTRFS?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I never tested BTRFS on SSDs under 128GB or even HDDs, but never had a corrupted one.

Those anecdotes are worth little so it would be best to have current data.

One of the above points was that the claims are outdated, which would be really interesting to verify.

Like, making a study with many different parameters

hdd, sata ssd, nvme ssd, emmc, etc.
size: 50-200MB, 1GB, 16GB, 128GB, 500GB, 4TB (from small embedded, to IOT, to usb flash drive, to smartphone, to laptop, to Server/Backup)
amount of usage: percentage filled, read/write per minute
BTRFS actions: snapshots, balance, defragment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If full backups aren't possible that's an administrator failure.

Reliance on a file system to never fail rather than have proper backups, is an administrator failure.

ANY system can, and will, fail. Thinking and behaving otherwise is an administrator failure.

"Everything gets gone, sooner or later" - being prepared for it is good administrator behaviour.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes but why intentionally choose a worse option? Sorry but it's not very smart imo.

And not having enough space is not an administrator failure. It's usually budget issue. And are you saying that making apps bloated (like severely bloated) is ok and the user should always be blamed for having lower hardware?