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What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?
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So ext4 is the best for desktop gaming performance?
It likely has an edge. But I think on SSDs the advantage is negligible. Also games have the most performance critical stuff in-memory anyway so the only thing you could optimize is read performance when changing scenes.
Here are some comparisons: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-5.14-File-Systems
But again ... practically you can likely ignore the difference for desktop usage (also gaming). The workloads where it matters are typically on servers with high throughput where latencies accumulate quickly.
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Having tried NTFS, ext4 and btrfs, the difference is not noticeable (though NTFS is buggy on Linux)
Btrfs I believe has compression built in so is good for large libraries but realistically ext4 is the easiest and simplest way to do so I just use that nowadays
Well that's because any support for it is unofficial. NTFS is made for Windows
And proprietary and an old piece of garbage.
I didn't want to sound to harsh, but yea
I had a pretty bad experience with the Paragon NTFS3 drivers a couple years ago. Basically the kernel hung, maybe from this, maybe not, but it ended up with filesystem corruption on my hard drives.
Thankfully, Windows was able to fix it but until recently I relied on NTFS-3G. Paragon's NTFS3 driver seems to be faring a lot better nowadays.
I'd be surprised to find out there was one filesystem that consistently did better than others in gaming performance. ext4 is a fine choice, though.
does tmpfs count?
No.
I remember reading somewhere that btrfs has good performance for gaming because of deduplication. I'm using btrfs, haven't benchmarked it or anything, but it seems to work fine.
Going to be they or XFS. There was a benchmark of the different filesystems I heard about never found it though. It was recent and included bcachefs