On Sat, 2025-04-12 at 10:48 -0400, John Mellor wrote: > > Today, you really need a COW filesystem that can easily be > dynamically extended to new disks as needed, a solution to the > RAID5/6 inability to recover in a reasonable amount of time on > today's large disks, do not need the additional complexities of LVM > disk management under the filesystem, SSD erasure tagging, parallel > reads/writes, bit-rot detection and correction, etc. EXT4 cannot > handle any of those problems. EXT2/3/4 were always an interim > solution. > > ZFS is the cadillac of filesystems, but is proprietary to Oracle. > Ubuntu will underwrite the legal costs for you using ZFS on Ubuntu, > but no other distro will. It is also not well suited to single-disk > workstations. > > > BTRFS gives you 90% of ZFS capabilities, is almost as fast, works > well on single-disk workstations, and is a really good next step for > 99% of users. It has unfinished parts, like RAID5/6 write-hole > problems just like LVM has, and no native encryption yet. Fedora has > only partially moved to BTRFS, leaving the boot mechanism still on > EXT2 for unknown reasons. The Suse distros have been all-in on BTRFS > for a lot of years now, while Fedora only moved to it in 2021. Its > been the default Fedora filesystem for 10 releases now. >
Interesting, I like all the reasons given for why BTRFS. I've continued to install to ext4 mainly for one reason (which for all I know isn't valid anymore). However, I seem to recall an issue with figuring out how much space was available. There were a handful of additional tools needed to query the filesystem. I just didn't have the time or patience to learn a bunch of additional tools for a specific filesystem. Is that still the case? -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
