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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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[–] donut4ever@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I have two drives in my machine, nvme and a sata. Nvme is my root partition and it is set to btrfs, because I love snapshots, they are just a must for me. The sata is my home partition and it is on ext4. Ext4 and is tried and true and I don't want to risk losing my personal files.

[–] Secret300@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I like btrfs cause of transparent compression but I'm pretty sure other filesystems like ZFS have that too

[–] root@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Hi all. Apologies to hijack this thread. Figured it should be OK since it's also on the topic of file systems.

Long story short, I need to reinstall Nobara OS and I plan to install Nobara on my smaller SSD drive with btrfs and set my /home folder to my larger nvme. I'm thinking of using ext4 for my /home and have snapshots of the main system stored on the nvme. Looking for a sanity check to see if this is OK or if I should be doing things differently. Thanks.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

ext4.

Never used arch; just slackware and then enterprise linux.

[–] The_Zen_Cow_Says_Mu@infosec.pub 1 points 2 years ago

For both my home server and desktop I use XFS for root and ZFS (in some variety of raid or mirror) for /home and data storage. Any time I've tried btrfs for root (such as default fedora), inevitably it poops the bed. At this point, I stay far away from btrfs.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago
[–] samsy@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For what? Client on a laptop or PC? Why not f2fs? On a server just trust good ol ext4 with some flash drive settings.

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

it would be for a PC and normal work/home use

[–] samsy@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

My current setup is fedora for the last 6 months. I started a live session, installed f2fs and then run the installer with a combination of f2fs + encryption. And it runs flawlessly and faster than any setup before.

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