What filesystem is currently best for a single nvme drive with regard to performance read/write as well as stability/no file loss? ext4 seems very old, btrfs is used by RHEL, ZFS seems to be quite good… what do people tend to use nowadays? What is an arch users go-to filesystem?

  • BCsven
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    1 year ago

    Facebook was using btrfs for some usecases. Not sure what you mean by breaking things?

    • jsveiga@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Most comments suggesting btrfs were justifying it for the possibility of rolling back to a previous state of files when something breaks (not a btrfs breakage, but mishaps on the system requiring an “undo”).

      • BCsven
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        1 year ago

        Ah, I see. While that use may be a good plan for home server, doing that for production server seems like a bandaid solution to having a test server and controlling deployed changes very carefully.

        • jsveiga@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Exactly. A waste of server resources, as a productions server is not tinkerable, and shouldn’t “break”.