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 😃

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Note that ext4 is damn old

    Hmm ? Linux kernel is way older than ext4. And before ext4 there was ext3 and ext2. Linux users also have the choice of using XFS file system and for IT persons working for corporations XFS can have some advantages. Let’s see, XFS was born in 1993.

    more modern ones like btrfs or bcachefs

    Years ago I thought that bcachecfs looked interesting but last thing I read about it this year was not very promising regarding reliability. Not sure whether it was in comments on Lemmy but here I found something from Linus himself : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs#Stability

    • jcarax@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, bcachefs is still very very young, and not ready for much of anything beyond tinkering. But I’m definitely excited to have a native filesystem that’s designed with tiers in mind.