What filesystem is currently best for a single nvme drive with regard to performance read/write as well as stability/no file loss? ext4 seems very old, btrfs is used by RHEL, ZFS seems to be quite good… what do people tend to use nowadays? What is an arch users go-to filesystem?

  • @Nonononoki
    10•1 year ago

    Too bad btrfs still doesn’t support encryption natively, unlike ext4.

    • Affine Connection
      7•1 year ago

      How much is ext4 filesystem-level encryption actually used though?

      • @Nonononoki
        2•1 year ago

        I guess not much on desktop Linux, but every Android phone uses it. Really wish every Linux desktop would start encrypting their /home partition by default, which is the standard by many other operating systems.

        • Krik
          2•1 year ago

          I’m pretty sure default Android runs almost always on F2FS.

          • @Nonononoki
            1•1 year ago

            Got any source for that? Android has traditionally always used ext4 afaik, not sure if that changed in the last few years.

            • Krik
              2•1 year ago

              Wiki says:

              Motorola Mobility has used F2FS in their Moto G/E/X and Droid phones since 2012. Google first used F2FS in their Nexus 9 in 2014. However Google’s other products didn’t adopt F2FS until the Pixel 3 when F2FS was updated with inline crypto hardware support.

              Huawei has used F2FS since the Huawei P9 in 2016. OnePlus has used F2FS in the OnePlus 3T. ZTE has used F2FS since the ZTE Axon 10 Pro in 2019.

              I assume since Google is involved that more and more Android phones will adopt F2FS in the future.

              • @Nonononoki
                1•1 year ago

                So only a handful of devices support F2FS right now and is not the default

                • Krik
                  2•1 year ago

                  It’s still quite a lot. Samsung is the inventor of F2FS and has a market share of 33%.