nixCraft π§#Linux filesystem comparison
Freevolt@nixCraft Fun fact: ReiserFS is created by a convicted killer.
Less fun fact: ReiserFS was removed from the Linux mainline, not because of the "creator is a killer" thing but because it wasn't maintained well.
Dan@freevolt24 @nixCraft although the reason it's not well maintained may have something to do with the lead dev being in prison for murder
P4@freevolt24 @nixCraft I'm guessing the lack of maintenance had more to do with the "convicted" part?
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Also reiserfs code contains the modus operandi of the assassination of the woman
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Also reiserfs code contains the modus operandi of the assassination of the woman
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NK30 
@nixCraft And you can pronounce it "Butt-RFS" if you don't know it better.
synlogic
sebsauvage@nixCraft
Nice thank you.
Wait... Ext4 supports encryption? π€
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nice once, looks like brtfs is the winner here
Jeroen@nixCraft one more field to add: Creator serving life for murder: ReiserFS βοΈ
ark_r@nixCraft What is 'Creation Timestamp'?
I have Ubuntu 22.04 and ext4.
''stat' tool shows four timestamps: Access, Modify, Change and Birth.
I have Ubuntu 22.04 and ext4.
''stat' tool shows four timestamps: Access, Modify, Change and Birth.
Kevin Karhan 
proedie@nixCraft Ext4 actually has creation time stamps. The standard tools just donβt support it.
Budley@nixCraft so, ext4 does _not_ support encryption.
To support βadd/remove disksβ btrfs and zfs have to perform block/device management thereby replicating the existing functionality provided by LVM/MD but without all the extra benefits.
DJGummikuh@nixCraft how does NTFS compare against this?
Edan Osborne πΊπ¦π΅πΈβΎοΈMay Kill Your Family βββββ
Nessie Artemis@nixCraft seems ext4 is good enough, but btrfs looks also good in term of features
acb@nixCraft
Written by a murderer: β β β β β
Written by a murderer: β β β β β
Seong's π Seongs@nixCraft So nothing about casefold support? Pretty important for some users playing Windows games.
afaik, ext4 supports this, btrfs absolutely does not at the moment, but no idea about the others.
Cloud Manul@nixCraft Using btrfs for big and small systems for 10 years now, with zero problems. Stopped using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for new systems because they started to boycott btrfs with RHEL 8. Never looked back.
@cloud_manul @nixCraft had #RedHat not killed #CentOS8, I might've even migrated a former employer/client to #RHEL8 but given their asshole moves, I pivoted them to @ubuntu / #UbuntuLTS instead...
Ernst de Moor@nixCraft donβt know how common it is, but Synology supports btrfs with encryption.
@ernstdemoor @nixCraft that's because on basically all #Linux #Filesystems, #RAID and #Encryption is handled by dedicaded subsystems like #dmraid and #dmcrypt / #LUKS respectably, thus not on filesystem but OS level...
This allows extra cursed shit like a an encrypted & RAID-5 running NTFS - Tho that won't be useable by anything but Linix and I disrecommend it almost as hard as mixing hardware RAID controllers and/or dmraid with ZFS.
Remember: NEVER EVER LIE TO ZFS!!!
pspinler@nixCraft And if you put yourfilesystem atop LVM and/or MD ? I know I've live added disks to an ext4 on top of LVM more than 10 years ago.
jaxu@home@nixCraft You forgot #Ceph & #NFS as well as #GlusterFS but I guess those are less seen as #filesystems but protocols to provide data access like #SFTP, #FTP & #iSCSI...