There's A Proposal To Switch Fedora 33 On The Desktop To Using Btrfs

[JustinTurdeau]

I spend about half my time on the desktop editing movies and pictures and a copy on write file system is shite for that.

How so?

[ayumu]

btrfs would make sense as a default if it was decent at everything. But it isn't. It has pathological corner cases. Thus it doesn't make sense as a default.

I would suggest NILFS2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS

• Checksums for data and metadata
• 64-bit data structures, timestamps.
• Continuous Snapshotting
• Designed with an emphasis on Low Latency

A great fit for a desktop. The best filesystem in the Linux kernel if you ask me. And yet ironically the most ignored.

[JustinTurdeau]

It has pathological corner cases.

Such as...?

[profoundWHALE]

If you want speed, then choose EXT4.

If you want stability, choose XFS.

If you want security and advanced features, choose ZFS.

[pal666]

Is there any point on using it on desktop? Performance? No. Stability? I doubt.

both of those and many more

[pal666]

looking at this article this decision makes no sense to me for desktops.

this is idiotic conclusion. databases should use nocow files. and you should benchmark speed of snapshot creation instead of some bullshit benchmark. and responsiveness of your desktop during io pressure, which no other filesystem can control

[pal666]

There's another proposal - just a few minutes ago:

Proposal to switch Fedora 33.5 from SystemD to sysvinit

do you hear voices in your head?

[pal666]

April Fool's is over. Just use XFS like sane people.

i have no use for fs which can't be resized

[pal666]

BTRFS is extremly slow on the Desktop

you are doing it wrong. i'm writing it from desktop on btrfs

[pal666]

it does not handle running out of space better.

as a matter of fact, it does. not 100%, but much closer than in the past
if you read change proposal, they want to use btrfs exactly because their ext4 users have too many out of space issues and btrfs will solve them with its superior featureset