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 😃

  • jcarax@beehaw.org
    3·
    6 months ago

    It is 16 years ago, that’s pretty old in terms of technology.

    It’s also an evolution of ex3 and ext2, and ext if you want to consider it’s very short lifetime. In fact, the lead developer stated in 2008 that it was meant as a stop gap, as it’s based on old technology with some new features, and that BTRFS was the future.

    • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
      1·
      6 months ago

      And yet here we are 16 years later with btrfs only just in a position to be usable (perhaps. My experience is that I’ll never use it again)

      • jcarax@beehaw.org
        2·
        6 months ago

        And EXT had been developed for 16 years at that point (and XFS for 15). They didn’t mature overnight, either.

        Hopefully bcachefs matures more quickly, because we need a mainline replacement for ZFS.