I notice that this is from Huawei. If it was commercial software, this could not be used by anybody using US federal funding. Because this is Open Source, it will probably be put into use by the NSA, CIA, FBI, and NASA. Fascinating.
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There is a lot of development from China in the linux kernel. Also, to my knowledge there is a lot of chinese work in qemu and libvirt as well.
ext4 is better than btrfs in terms of speed right?
Yes, because it doesn't do as much to protect you from data corruption.
If you have a use case where a barely-measurable increase in speed is essential, but not so essential that you wouldn't just pay for more RAM to keep it in cache, and also it doesn't matter if you get the wrong answer because you've not noticed the disk is failing, and you can afford to lose everything in the case of a power cut, then sure, use a legacy filesystem. Otherwise, use a modern one.
and you can afford to lose everything in the case of a power cut
But ext4 is a journaling filesystem, so a power cut shouldn't harm it.
Ext4 is not legacy, just because something newer is out there. Ext4 is proven and rock solid, not without reason the standard for most Linux systems. It doesn't randomly corrupt your files. If someone would read your reply, one would think that Ext4 is abandoned since decades and a risk to use.
If one has to ask and don't understand Btrfs, should just use Ext4 by default; a safe and good option without risking anything. There are no downsides to this. Use Btrfs only, if you know what you are doing, if you understand it and actually need the extra functionality.
Use Btrfs only, if you know what you are doing, if you understand it and actually need the extra functionality.
And, may I add, if your chosen distro defaults to it.
For those who still use it.
Ok I'm just giving it a hard time as I still use it for VMs
Well that's the default for debian based systems. So a lot of us use it.
I still use it (Ext4) exclusively and its great. How can you have a hard time with Ext4? It's the most proven and most polished FS. Its not like slowing down your system or being buggy or like that.
It is slower than btrfs and lacks protection against corruption
It is slower than btrfs
What evidence supports your statement, given that it contradicts the overall results of tests conducted in the past year by both DJ Ware and Michael Larabel from Phoronix?
Same here. Ext4 is an excellent general purpose file systems and a sensible default. It lacks features that are useful, even critical, for some use cases which sometimes rules it out but it certainly isn't obsolete.
Btrfs snapshots made me stop using ext4 all together.
Huge news 🎉 Thanks OP for sharing.
It feels like a relief after reading earlier Lemmy comments in other posts about btrfs vs ext4 and having read this Wikipedia page paragraph :
In 2008, the principal developer of the ext3 and ext4 file systems, Theodore Ts'o, stated that although ext4 has improved features, it is not a major advance, it uses old technology, and is a stop-gap. Ts'o believes that Btrfs is the better direction because "it offers improvements in scalability, reliability, and ease of management".[29] Btrfs also has "a number of the same design ideas that reiser3/4 had".[30] 😢
Oh no, wait a minute, I overlooked the next sentence last time 😀 :
However, ext4 has continued to gain new features such as file encryption and metadata checksums.
On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I can't really tell the difference in my regular usage.
Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but I'm not sure if that's true anymore.
Maybe on the next system I'll be back to ext4.
Btrfs is newer and has more features
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