It should shock no one that XFS and EXT4 ran the field. For those new to the scene XFS is the decades long battle hardened and battle tested UNIX file system found in the beginning inside Silicon Graphics workstations before being donated over to open source after Silicon Graphics decided the future was not IRIX ( its version of UNIX) and workstations making all of Hollywood’s CGI, like Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, Twister, etc, etc. And EXT4 is just the extension of the long running EXT series of file systems. More hands have been knocking away on that than any other FS in Linux Land. Unless your compute scenario, really really requires CoW your best bet is just stick with the default EXT4 and call it a day.
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An Initial Benchmark Of Bcachefs vs. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS On Linux 6.11
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Originally posted by aerospace View PostHere for all the "BTRFS is better than anything else, forget EXT4 and ZFS" fanboys. Hope no one shows up.
ZFS being out-of-tree is a nonstarter for me, but with BTRFS I can sync a snapshot of my entire system (a little more than 1TiB currently) over USB3.0 to an old external harddisk in about four minutes. What's not to love?
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Unfortunately CachyOS recently dropped GNOME, and since I use XFCE which is highly dependent on GNOME I had to revert my desktop system to Arch and convert my ZFS disks to BTRFS.
And wow, BTRFS is not only palpably slower, but when copying terabytes of data to my BTRFS disks my system would actually freeze for around 15 seconds every few minutes. And this is without any fancy features like compression.
This was quite disturbing, and now I really don't know what to do. I also have a media server with 48 TB of disks, which are about 70% full, and I'm really worried about how BTRFS will perform with such a massive amount of data. I wish the CachyOS devs would let its users know for certain if dropping GNOME is going to affect XFCE, which I expect it will, but so far I haven't received a clear answer.
So I'm in a holding pattern waiting to find out before reverting my media server to Arch, as it will take an extraordinary amount of work and time. All I need is a reasonably fast filesystem with data integrity verification, and the ability to use XFCE. But CachyOS really dropped a bomb on its users, and are going all in on KDE and Wayland for some reason. And while some people like Windows type DEs like KDE and GNOME, I will never abandon the elegant simplicity and efficiency of XFCE.
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Originally posted by muncrief View PostUnfortunately CachyOS recently dropped GNOME, and since I use XFCE which is highly dependent on GNOME I had to revert my desktop system to Arch and convert my ZFS disks to BTRFS.
and xfce does not "highly depend" on gnome. they recently adopted the new gtk version. that's it.
i currently use btrfs on my desktop and my disk can easily saturate my 10GBe link. zfs on my nas (hoping to switch to bcachefs. but not yet)
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Originally posted by blackshard View Post
Perhaps your life has been too short?
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