On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 08:23 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Ext4 seems to be used by well-known binary distros.
There's a reason for this. It can fulfill all but the most niche or intensive roles, is robustly supported, well-tested both in development and through wide use in the field, and generally "just works". It is a great general purpose file system, for general purpose computing. Standard LAMP stack, desktop, laptop, HTPC, etc. are all satisfied by ext4 Since it is so broadly used and supported, you are guaranteed to find documentation for whatever feature or issue you discover. > What would others recommend ? For general purpose computing/serving, in a non-scaling, non- performance-critical, non-experimental scenario, ext4 Unless[1] you are specifically: * learning/exploring/experimenting * storing billions of tiny files * storing 1TB+ individual files * not using any kind of backups[2] -- [1] I'm certain that there are other use cases for which ext4 is not an optimal choice, but I don't have first-hand experience with them. [2] I'm aware that zfs and others can do snapshots for recovery and "roll back" but there is no replacement for versioned hard copy backups
