Linux Filesystem of the Year

jeremy · 12-28-2016, 12:20 PM

A new category last year that ended up with fairly lopsided results. Based on feedback it may be rotated out next year.

--jeremy

bbuske · 12-28-2016, 12:30 PM

Went with btrfs here, even though I also use Ext4, I made great experience with btrfs and it supports Snapper backups, which is another plus for me, being on openSUSE.

rokytnji · 12-28-2016, 02:17 PM

My needs are simple. Voted ext3. But on my non trim supported ssd atom netbook.

I roll with ext2 with no /swap partition.

stanvan · 12-28-2016, 03:04 PM

Voted ext4, but going to try btrfs one of these days.

fatmac · 12-31-2016, 07:41 AM

Everything uses ext4 on my systems.

Keith Hedger · 12-31-2016, 08:49 AM

why no ext2? it's all i use

bbuske · 12-31-2016, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stanvan

Voted ext4, but going to try btrfs one of these days.

You should. I am aware of the fact, that it had received some bad reviews in the past, but I had absolutely no problems with it. Basically I decided to give it ago, since I use openSUSE, which comes with Snapper for backups and Snapper requires Btrfs. I have however my /home formatted in Ext4, since I don't need it snapshot.

Not noticing any performance increase, but Btrfs appears pretty robust and performing well for like one year now.

ugjka · 12-31-2016, 11:47 AM

btrfs, because of transparent compression

trosdejos · 01-05-2017, 07:14 AM

I voted XFS because at work have several NAS over 16 TB
ZFS i great too but RAIDZ is not growable as easy as growing RAID with mdadm tools.

Fellype · 01-05-2017, 10:40 AM

Missing ReiserFS in the list :-( Its still working fine here...

jeremy · 01-05-2017, 10:55 AM

Reiser4 is the most recent release and has been included in the category from the beginning.

--jeremy

SilentSam · 01-05-2017, 01:36 PM

ReiserFS (which is Reiser3) is quite a bit different than Reiser4 isn't it?

weirdwolf · 01-12-2017, 08:36 AM

ext4. Would like to try XFS on my ssds, can't get it to boot through. Probably just me I'm guessing.

FredGSanford · 01-12-2017, 04:18 PM

ext4 for me...maybe I need to try a different one sometime!

teresaejunior · 01-13-2017, 09:34 AM

Formated my HDD with LUKS encrypted Btrfs. Used it for months, since I had not the time to change it, but I never had such a slow system in my life before.

Came back to ext4, which in my search is actually the fastest filesystem nowadays, and became a happy Linux user again!