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What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?
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My personal testing
Let's agree on: it has a different performance for various use cases and hardware below. Sometimes better, sometimes worse.
Well I use it pretty much exclusively now for bare hardware. For VMs it doesn't matter so I use ext4
Not much time, I'll be brief with three examples that come to mind from my experience:
Great use: Large filestorage with regular changes, daily snapshots, stream snapshots offsite as backup.
Not so great use: Storage backend for qcow2 backed VMs on spinning RAID. CoW made a mess of access times.
Really not great use: Large Postgres-DB with queries that creted large ondisk temp tables.
It really depends.