GRUB Boot-Loader Picks Up Support For F2FS File-System

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GRUB Boot-Loader Picks Up Support For F2FS File-System

The GRUB2 boot-loader now has support for the Flash-Friendly File-System so it can boot to systems formatted with F2FS as the root file-system...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GRUB-Now-Supports-F2FS

[tildearrow]

Typo:

OpenMandriva amon other distributions while now is upstream in GRUB Git.

[R41N3R]

I'm waiting to boot with grub a btrfs "zstd" volume. Hope this will land soon as well :-)

[blae]

This article doesn't describe it quite right though - you've always been able to boot _to_ a F2FS filesystem, what they've fixed here is that /boot also can lie on a F2FS filesystem.

Edit: I see the article got updated

[johanb]

Is it worth migrating from ext4 to f2fs on a PCIe SSD?
I'm running ext4 on it currently since that was what I used on my HDD back when I migrated.
f2fs seem to have stabilized the past few years, but is the impact from the improved speed and better health of my ssd significant enough to be worth it?

[Azrael5]

Finally! when will be it possible to select F2FS on USBs drives installation?

[geearf]

I'm waiting to boot with grub a btrfs "zstd" volume. Hope this will land soon as well :-)

I already do that, unless you mean that /boot is in btrfs as well.

[DrYak]

I'm waiting to boot with grub a btrfs "zstd" volume. Hope this will land soon as well :-)

In the meantime, a possible stop-gag solution, is to use the "btrfs filesystem defragment" with the "-c" parameter to switch the compression of important files to something that GRUB already supports.

Or as geearf mentions : mount on /boot a different volume that isn't a "btrfs compressed with Zstd by default".

[davidbepo]

finally

[starshipeleven]

Is it worth migrating from ext4 to f2fs on a PCIe SSD?
I'm running ext4 on it currently since that was what I used on my HDD back when I migrated.
f2fs seem to have stabilized the past few years, but is the impact from the improved speed and better health of my ssd significant enough to be worth it?

I'd say don't. F2fs makes the most difference on devices where the controller sucks, like SDcards or USB flash drives, or eMMC in smartphones.

On a SSD the storage controller is powerful enough that the difference between ext4 and f2fs isn't so clear-cut.