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Just a simple question : Which file system do you recommend for Linux? Ext4...?

EDIT : Thanks to everyone who commented, I think I will try btrfs on my root partition and keep ext4 for my home directory 😃

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[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And yet here we are 16 years later with btrfs only just in a position to be usable (perhaps. My experience is that I'll never use it again)

[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

And EXT had been developed for 16 years at that point (and XFS for 15). They didn't mature overnight, either.

Hopefully bcachefs matures more quickly, because we need a mainline replacement for ZFS.