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which is "better", XFS or BTRFS? i only care about file system resilience on shitty SSDs, so like, which one is going to be slower at letting my photos be randomly destroyed by bit flips? #linux
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Josh Simmons · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq59ypwap8a2vtt9732whltjlglsdwh085l8c6gq9k9c33ckdus4eq3w3q9y it won't make any difference, neither has any special resilience mechanisms (especially not for data at rest).
Miss Aemilia🎀 · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq59ypwap8a2vtt9732whltjlglsdwh085l8c6gq9k9c33ckdus4eq3w3q9y in my long experience, btrfs is extremely prone to corrupting itself and shitting the bed in unstable conditions - this is emphatically not the case with XFS.
Simon Richter · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq59ypwap8a2vtt9732whltjlglsdwh085l8c6gq9k9c33ckdus4eq3w3q9y neither. For recovery after failure of individual sectors, ext2/3/4 is king, precisely because of the things that xfs proponents keep insisting are "design flaws", like static allocatio...