AlanP
July 13, 2021, 11:55am
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Hello everybody,
I saw that Fedora is now using Btrfs filesystem by default. Does it means that Btrfs is better than Ext4 now ?
Is Btrfs suitable for SSD and eMMC storages ? What about the Trim, noatime, zram with Btrfs ?
Have you got advices to install Manjaro on an eMMC storage ?
Thanks.
btrfs
has already long been an excellent and stable filesystem. The only issue with it is that its built-in RAID 5/6 functionality is still not usable and can lead to data loss. But for just about every other usage, it works very well. I myself am using it here on my system.
Yes, it is. It even has performance optimizations for SSDs.
zram
doesn’t have anything to do with btrfs
. As for TRIM, you use that as with any other filesystem. Simply enable the fstrim.timer
supplied with systemd
, and it will trim your mounted filesystems once a week.
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i found btrfs to be slower most of the time for my use, given a choice i always select ext4.
AlanP
July 13, 2021, 12:20pm
4
I’m using Ext4 as filesystem for my computers but it is a pain to transfer Big files (several gigabytes).
that’s common with every file system.
i also find if the device heats up it slows down, which happens with large files.
Sure, btrfs is never meant for speed. Keeping data integrity is what it’s best at, other than its built-in features like subvolume and snapshots.
I personally stay on ext4 because it’s more straightforward. But btrfs does have appealing features.
Read what each does and pick yours.
EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7: GPT Windows BDP.
0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4: GPT Linux filesystem data.
933AC7E1-2EB4-4F13-B844-0E14E2AEF915: GPT /home partition.
The ext4 journaling file system or fourth extended filesystem is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3.
ext4 was initially a series of backward-compatible extensions to ext3, many of them originally developed by Cluster File Systems for the Lustre file system between 2003 and 2006, m...
Btrfs (pronounced as "butter fuss", "better F S", "butter F S", "b-tree F S", or simply by spelling it out) is a computer storage format that combines a file system based on the copy-on-write (COW) principle with a logical volume manager (not to be confused with Linux's LVM), developed together. It was initially designed at Oracle Corporation in 2007 for use in Linux, and since November 2013, the file system's on-disk format has been declared stable in the Linux kernel. Accordi Btrfs is intende...