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Installing EndeavourOS, should I use btrfs or ext4? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/linux@programming.dev
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edit 2: Found a video by "SpaceRex" on the differences between BTRFS and EXT4, super helpful! He explained it quite well...

edit: It seems that there isn't much difference between btrfs and ext4 aside from additional features of btrfs, which although I might not need right now, there doesn't seem to be any harm in using btrfs over ext4, so I will be using btrfs.

Which would be better? Fedora shipped with btrfs, does it have any additional features that are good (quick search shows compression, subvolumes, and snapshots as main selling points for btrfs, but are there any downsides?

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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

@sbeak ext4 unless you have a concrete use case for btrfs, like snapshots on a backup drive etc... just my two cents

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Noted. But then why does Fedora ship with btrfs then, given that they are catering to a mainstream audience?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Btrfs has a bunch of features and is one of the contenders for the "next" filesystem. Ext4 is utterly bulletproof though and has good enough perf so it's still your best bet unless you specifically want to use the advanced btrfs features.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Because Fedora likes to adapt the newest stuff very early. While it's not like "very early" for BTRFS anymore, its still exceptional unusual to have it as the default in a mainstream distribution. And they want to benefit from the feature set of BTRFS, so it makes sense to use it as the default. Why shouldn't the mainstream benefit from quick snapshots and backups? I don't see the argument "are catering to mainstream audience" as to not use BTRFS?

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