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Best Filesystem for NAS? (lemmy.world)
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A year ago I set up Ubuntu server with 3 ZFS pools on my server, normally I don't make copies of very large files but today I was making a copy of a ~30GB directory and I saw in rsync that the transfer doesn't exceed 3mb/s (cp is also very slow).

What is the best file system that "just works"? I'm thinking of migrating everything to ext4

EDIT: I really like the automatic pool recovery feature in ZFS, has saved me from 1 hard drive failure so far

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago

Never had an issue with EXT4.

Had a problem on a NAS where BTRFS was taking "too long" for systemD to check it, so just didn't mount it... bit of config tweaking and all is well again.

I use EXT* and BTRFS where ever I can because I can manipulate it with standard tools (inc gparted).

I have 1 LVM system which was interesting, but I wouldn't do it that way in the future (used to add drives on a media PC)

And as for ZFS ... I'd say it's very similar to BTRFS, but just slightly too complex on Linux with all the licensing issues, etc. so I just can't be bothered with it.

As a throw-away comment, I'd say ZFS is used by TrusNAS (not a problem, just sayin'...) and... that's about it??

As to the OPs original question, I agree with the others here... something's not right there, but it's probably not the filesystem.

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