V.IV MΛGPIE

question for fedi:

ext4 vs btrfs

why or why not, discuss

(sorry im so curious)

Mar 9 at 6:07pmWeb
Show thread⛧-66642 [Lucy]Mar 9
@MAGPIE xfs because it's SGI and leet
Show thread⛧-66642 [Lucy]Mar 9
@MAGPIE and because postgres is fastest on it (which is the only relevant metric anyways)
Show thread⛧-66642 [Lucy]Mar 9
@MAGPIE but in all honesty just do btrfs and regular snapshots
Show thread⛧-440729 [sophie raven]Mar 9
@MAGPIE btrfs, it has very cool features like copy on write and snapshots and compression and can also do multidisk if that's a thing you need
Show threadash Mar 10
@MAGPIE xfs /srs
Show threadV.IV MΛGPIEMar 10
@darkphoenix explain please, I know literally nothing
Show threadash Mar 10
@MAGPIE because work(TM) and a bunch of meh experiences I've kinda taken xfs as my default reassuringly boring fs instead of ext4, 'cause it's more reliable especially with large partitions and performs better, so there really seems to be not much reason to use ext4 over it (except one downside, you can't shrink XFS partitions). btrfs tbh I still don't particularly trust just because it's mostly solid but looking at the issues people have with it when it does break it's often catastrophic and there's no recovery beyond restoring a backup, and some of these edge cases are known and not being prioritised as fixes, which isn't an attitude I like seeing in something so critical >.>