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by Zababa 1849 days ago
> I predict BRTFS or another "modern" filesystem like XFS will soon be supported out-of-the-box.

I've been using Linux with ext4 for quite some time. Am I missing out on something by not using BRTFS or XFS?
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tomnipotent 1849 days ago
Not for casual use. There's no reason to use BRTFS or XFS on single-drive computers, unless you have a specific need for something like snapshots or checksums. BRTFS does let you do crazy things like split a single drive into 2 partitions, and run them RAID1.
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kevinmgranger 1849 days ago
The advantages with BTRFS mainly lie within its copy-on-write snapshotting, and subvolume features.

I can't speak to the benefits of XFS.

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