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What Filesystem? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What filesystem is currently best for a single nvme drive with regard to performance read/write as well as stability/no file loss? ext4 seems very old, btrfs is used by RHEL, ZFS seems to be quite good... what do people tend to use nowadays? What is an arch users go-to filesystem?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are planning to have any kind of database with regular random writes, stay away from btrfs. It's roughly 4-5x slower than zfs and will slowly fragment itself to death.

I'm migrating a server from btrfs to zfs right now for this very reason. I have multiple large MySQL and SQLite tables on it and they have accumulated >100k file fragments each and have become abysmally slow. There are lots of benchmarks out there that show that zfs does not have this issue and even when both filesystems are clean, database performance is significantly higher on zfs.

If you don't want a COW filesystem, then XFS on LVM raid for databases or ext4 on LVM for everything else is probably fine.

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

Did you disable CoW for your database with btrfs? E.g. for PostgreSQL, the Arch Wiki states:

If the database resides on a Btrfs file system, you should consider disabling Copy-on-Write for the directory before creating any database.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From arch wiki:

Disabling CoW in Btrfs also disables checksums. Btrfs will not be able to detect corrupted nodatacow files. When combined with RAID 1, power outages or other sources of corruption can cause the data to become out of sync.

No thanks

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

that's no different than any "normal" filesystem with a traditional block-level RAID solution

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Not really. You can still use dm-verity for a normal raid and get checksumming and normal performance, which is better and faster than using btrfs.

But in any case, I'd recommend just going with zfs because it has all the features and is plenty fast.