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If you artificially tailor your criteria such that the only answer you your question is btrfs then that is the answer you will get.
by badgersnake 2y ago
If you artificially tailor your criteria such that the only answer you your question is btrfs then that is the answer you will get.
- homebrewer 2y agoThere's nothing "artificial" in his requirements, data checksums and efficient snapshots are required for some workloads (for example, we use them for end-to-end testing on copies of the real production database that are created and thrown away in seconds), and building your own kernel modules is a stupid idea in many cases outside of two extremes of the home desktop or a well-funded behemoth like Facebook.
- arp242 2y agoData checksums in particular is 90% of the reason I want to use a newer filesystem than XFS or Ext4. This is useful for almost any usage. Snapshots a bit less so, but even for my laptop this would be useful, mostly for backups (that is: create snapshot, backup that, and then delete the snapshot – this is how I did things on FreeBSD back in the day). A second use case would be safer system updates and easier rollbacks – not useful that often, but when you need it, it's pretty handy.