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?

  • Solemarc@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I would recommend btrfs at this point. I use it for my OS harddrive and I would also use it for my second harddrive except I don’t want to format it, so it’s still running ext4.

    Theoretically btrfs runs slower then ext4 but you won’t see it outside of benchmarks. Btrfs can also do integrity checks and healing so your drive (might) last longer, ultimately, that one depends on what exactly is wrong with it.