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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What Filesystem? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by cianmor@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] odium@programming.dev 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

btrfs is great for system stability because of snapshots. You can set it up to automatically make snapshots at a timed interval or every time you run pacman.

If something breaks, you can just revert to a previous snapshot. You can even do this from grub. It's a bit hard to set up, so if you want, you could use an arch based distro which automatically sets it up like GarudaOS.

[–] Nonononoki@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Too bad btrfs still doesn't support encryption natively, unlike ext4.

[–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How much is ext4 filesystem-level encryption actually used though?

[–] Nonononoki@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I guess not much on desktop Linux, but every Android phone uses it. Really wish every Linux desktop would start encrypting their /home partition by default, which is the standard by many other operating systems.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or OpenSUSE , all setup out of the box for btrfs, snapshots, grub rollback, and cleanup timers, etc.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wow, first time I've seen GarudaOS recommended by someone who's not me. Awesome distro, daily driver on my gaming rig.

[–] CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space 6 points 2 years ago

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

[–] saplyng@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I use it for home and work! I quite like it though I miss latte dock still, dragging windows from the top bar was just so useful for me