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Originally posted by discordian View PostF2fs is a good fit for eMMC storage (phones, embedded), where it should provide better performance and lifetime. It competes more with JFFS2
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Originally posted by stqn View PostIs it time to use F2FS on SSDs instead of, say, ext4? I’m still unsure of the actual benefits of this file system.
F2fs is a good fit for eMMC storage (phones, embedded), where it should provide better performance and lifetime. It competes more with JFFS2 and other logbased filesystem than a ext4 which is journalbased.
(Tha said I would not mind comparisons on SSD, particularly in terms of how much actual data is written with different fs)
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Is it time to use F2FS on SSDs instead of, say, ext4? I’m still unsure of the actual benefits of this file system.
Edit: I see that it is faster in some (synthetic or database-oriented) benchmarks, but also that it isn’t well-supported by gparted, and it is impossible to shrink f2fs partitions.Last edited by stqn; 29 December 2018, 05:24 AM.
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F2FS Gets More Fixes In Linux 4.21 With The File-System Now Supported By Google's Pixel
Phoronix: F2FS Gets More Fixes In Linux 4.21 With The File-System Now Supported By Google's Pixel
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) has some new features for the current Linux 4.21 development cycle but it's mostly fixes stemming from increased testing with Google now supporting this flash-focused file-system for their Pixel device line-up...
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