POLL: Which file system in 2022. ext4, btrfs, xfs, zfs, f2fs (choose 1)

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HDDs have inferior sequential I/O and horrific random I/O spped so you could use compression feature of BTRFS to speed up I/O and also save space.

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I donā€™t know the answer. The thread has been reopened.

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https://archlinux.org/packages/?name=compsize

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I started using btrfs on my virtual machines simply because compression saves space.
I have many virtual machines for various testing and other purposes, so saving space is worth it.

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All the filesystems mentioned in the poll would be fine for that data.

Yes. If it would be better than a conventional filesystem would depend on how compressible the data is and if snapshots would be valuable to you with that data.

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I donā€™t need snapshots on this HDD because I back up the data manually. I am more interested in improving the performance a bit, since the disk is quite slow when accessed.

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HDD is very slow compared to SSD. Nowadays SSDs are rather cheap.

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If the data is highly compressible, btrfs will probably improve performance assuming you have a decent CPU. If it isnā€™t, then ext4 will probably perform better.

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Sure, but not 6 TB ā€¦

Edit: typo

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Well, I still have a very old i5 2500, a current Ryzen 7 is planned for later, but that will take a while. So it does not bring much to go to another file system. Thank you.

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I guess you mean 6 TB, not 6 GB?

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Not much talk about xfs and f2fs but both seem like good options also. I have installed with both and or a mix with ext4.

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Sorry, of course, typo

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@anon50380917
I donā€™t see many 6 TB SSD. Here mostly 4TB but honestly i would rather go with a hard drive option because they are cheap. Slower mind you but if itā€™s mainly storage i think itā€™s fine.

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Thatā€™s exactly what Iā€™m doing ā€¦ SSD in this size are priceless (at least for me ā€¦).

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You can get some good performance type hard drives such as Western Digital Black or others fairly cheap.

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My HDD is a WD Blue, the backup disks are also WD Blue. I can live with the condition, had only hoped that a newer file system could at least get something out for the internal disk. But all is well ā€¦

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I am also using two 6Tb HDD, price is affordable at least. I use them in my server configured as raid, in case one breaks, I have a duplicateā€¦

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What do you mean by this?

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I mean that a different file system than the ext4 currently used might bring some performance gain on the HDD.