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Unfortunately (and this is more general for the Linux world) the filesystem in use is still ext4, which has been part of Linux since 2008 (almost 10 years now!)
by xtracto 10y ago
Unfortunately (and this is more general for the Linux world) the filesystem in use is still ext4, which has been part of Linux since 2008 (almost 10 years now!). ZFS is more an more usable in Linux ( apt install -y zfs ) but it would be really good to have it by default and available for the root partition.
Just moments ago I set up fusecompress in a DigitalOcean droplet to compress an .rbenv/versions and node_modules directory. It would be better if the filesystem supported transparent compression by default (zfs does, and I think brtfs)
- jlgaddis 10y agoYou probably know this but... you can use "ZFS-on-root" with Ubuntu although, as you mentioned, it's not available by default (or with the installer). I did it (w/ 16.04) on a laptop w/ a pair of SSDs a while back, mostly just being curious about ZFS on Linux in general. Now, both my workstation and primary laptop use ZFS (on Arch Linux) just like my FreeBSD servers do.