Hi fediverse, I'm asking you to do my homework 👀
Jokes aside, I am supposed to analyze the performance of filesystems for an assignment, and since I'm a #Linux enthousiast, I've decided to checkout out #ext4 and #btrfs since they are both quite popular.
I am posting my results here because I simply don't understand what explains the significant 15-20Mib throughput writing-speed gap between the two file systems. Initially I thought of compression, but it's disabled. Any clues ?
I've been transitioning my home computers from #Manjaro to #Solus #Linux because I noticed that Solus puts out weekly updates and Manjaro moves far more slowly.
I thought I'd give #BTRFS a try instead of #ext4 since on Manjaro, BTRFS has become the default and it worked well.
For some reason, it really didn't play well with Solus. I couldn't log into #Element at all and I had problems running #Cyberpunk2077 with #Heroic.
I reinstalled with ext4 and those problems went away.
I did, for some reason, have trouble installing Heroic from the repo and had to use #Flatpak instead, but I'm getting more comfortable with those. I let the computer redownload CPB2077 overnight and tried to run it this morning. It even remembered my progress, which was a fear.
Memory stick used many times is suddenly 'Read only file system' #ext4
BTRFS? LMAO. I use ext4. I don't like dealing with any other fs. Stability is what I want when it comes to the data I put into storage. It's the bedrock to everything I do in my systems so I want a rock stable bedrock. Fuck all the fancy shit. Ext4 on linux all the way
Snapper? Tf is dat? I just make a compressed dd image of my root drive. I don't wanna waste time twiddling with rsync or something UNLESS NECESSARY. I don't backup my system that frequent though.
A friend got a protable projector (Elfin Flip) and realized it's running Linux.
So I downloaded the firmware (from 2022) and binwalked it:
```
...
633998388 0x25CA0C34 Linux EXT filesystem, blocks count: 477201, image size: 488653824, rev 1.0, ext2 filesystem data (mounted or unclean), UUID=4729639d-b5f2-5cc1-a120-9ac5f788f788, volume name "/"
...
```
mounted or unclean!
I'm sorry sir, but could you fsck your release before shipping?
New post on The Byte Architect:
**Filesystem Wars: Why Your Choice of Storage is Actually a Security Move**
This is not a “which filesystem should I use?” checklist. It is a walk through the ideas behind FFS, BFS, NTFS, ext4, ZFS, and APFS — and why storage design is never just about storage.
Crash consistency, journaling, soft updates, CoW, snapshots, encryption, space sharing: different filesystems solve different problems, and those choices shape reliability, usability, and security.
The real target, of course, is APFS.
Read it here: https://bytearchitect.io/macos-security/theory/Filesystem-Wars-Why-Your-Choice-of-Storage-is-Actually-a-Security-Move/
#macOS #Apple #APFS #ZFS #ext4 #NTFS #ReverseEngineering #InfoSec #CyberSecurity
I completely missed this one ... thanks to LTT for putting it on my attention radar.
TIL: Ext4 only allows for 65536 hardlinks per file.
And funnily, for no certain reason, so does OpenZFS on linux.
Courtesy of #discourse ;)
blog.discourse.org/2026/04/how…
And now I know Jennifer Aniston can stress-test infrastructure.#Jennifer #Aniston #Rachel from #Friends doing a #happy #dance #FSLimits #ext4 #zfs #openzfs #linux #infrastructure #backend #stress #test #RandomShit ;)
Linux Kernel 7.0 ships with broad updates for Intel, AMD, and storage, including Xe GPU telemetry, Nova Lake audio, and early Zen 6 performance counters. 🐧
Storage gains include XFS self-healing, Btrfs I/O improvements, and EXT4 write optimizations, with Rust support and security tooling continuing to mature. ⚙️
🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-7-0-release/
#TechNews #Linux #Debian #Ubuntu #Fedora #ArchLinux #Kernel #OpenSource #FOSS #Intel #AMD #XFS #Btrfs #EXT4 #RustLang #Storage #Security #Computing #Systems
Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux's EXT4 filesystem limit — Jennifer Aniston's 'happy dance' animation ate up 377 gigabytes of data due to security policy
Admins were not happy. Initial attempts to resolve the issue by replacing files with hardlinks also failed due to ext4’s 65,000 hardlink limit.
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