A year ago I set up Ubuntu server with 3 ZFS pools on my server, normally I don’t make copies of very large files but today I was making a copy of a ~30GB directory and I saw in rsync that the transfer doesn’t exceed 3mb/s (cp is also very slow).

What is the best file system that “just works”? I’m thinking of migrating everything to ext4

EDIT: I really like the automatic pool recovery feature in ZFS, has saved me from 1 hard drive failure so far

  • @[email protected]English
    14•5 months ago

    I use BTRFS on everything too nowadays. The thing that made me switch everything to BTRFS was filesystem compression.

    • MorethanevilEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      Yes compression is cool. Zstd level 3 to 6 is very quick too 😋

      • @[email protected]English
        2•5 months ago

        I use zstd too, didn’t specifiy a level tho, so it’s just using the default. I only use like ⅔ of the disk space I used before and I don’t feel any difference in performance at all.