Installing EndeavourOS, should I use btrfs or ext4? (sopuli.xyz)

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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?

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[-] phoenixgee@mstdn.social 8 points 21 hours ago

@sbeak ext4 unless you have a concrete use case for btrfs, like snapshots on a backup drive etc... just my two cents

[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 21 hours ago

Noted. But then why does Fedora ship with btrfs then, given that they are catering to a mainstream audience?

[-] themoken@startrek.website 7 points 20 hours ago

Btrfs has a bunch of features and is one of the contenders for the "next" filesystem. Ext4 is utterly bulletproof though and has good enough perf so it's still your best bet unless you specifically want to use the advanced btrfs features.

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