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by tspiteri 1571 days ago
> Me, because we don't use transparent compression anywhere.

Since Fedora 34, a clean install will result in btrfs with zstd compression turned on. (An update of an older install will of course not change the filesystem from underneath the files.)

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I generally don't reinstall my OS unless it breaks. My current Debian installation is around 8 years old at this point (it's updated, of course), reinstalled to migrate it to amd64.

Other systems we install are configured on many levels, so even if the defaults are BTRFS w/zstd, it might be either known or changed to suit our needs better.

That's why i use Slackware - does not try to be smart.