I want to learn more about file systems from the practical point of view so I know what to expect, how to approach them and what experience positive or negative you had / have.
I found this wikipedia’s comparison but I want your hands-on views.
For now my mental list is
- NTFS - for some reason TVs on USB love these and also Windows + Linux can read and write this
- Ext4 - solid fs with journaling but Linux specific
- Btrfs - some modern fs with snapshot capability, Linux specific
- xfs - servers really like these as they are performant, Linux specific
- FAT32 - limited but recognizable everywhere
- exFAT - like FAT32 but less recognizable and less limited
ZFS on TrueNAS SCALE (enables RAID-like functionality, along with many other features).
Ext4 or NTFS on everything else, simply because it’s default and I don’t use any advanced features.
Nice! What hardware are you using with ZFS on TrueNAS SCALE?
Yeah simplicity beats everything when you only use basic features.
Old dual-core Pentium, lol (Haswell I think, or something from around that time), 16GB RAM. 5 16TB SATA hard disks.