#Filesystems and their features. What are your day-to-day conveniences with yours?

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trim berry
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I'm old and messy. My installation reflects this. Makeshift solutions that work and get left alone.
Ext4 as a filesystem is comfy. Do I know anything about what features it has? No, nothing. mkfs.ext4 and its good for installation.

I'm soon to clean my slate and start with a new installation with a new filesystem. At first btrfs looked nice for my use case. Then I heard ZFS is good for single disk usage as well, I always thought it was meant for pooled storage devices.
Now I've read about bcachefs which is the newest of the filesystems merged into upstream kernel. "Aims to provide features from btrfs and ZFS but cleaner, greater speed and GPL".

Copy on Write, or "redirect on write" sounds like the biggest feature for me as far as I understand all this. Am I wrong and have missed something?

As said, I only have 1 drive for my installation. What features of a filesystem would benefit me the most with such a setup?
No pooling, no replicas and no encryption.

trim berry
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Yeah, you're right. But a lot of people install what ever filesystem shows up in the installer and don't use any of it's features. This is why I'm interested to hear if people actually find any conveniences with these filesystems or if they install and forget

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Perhaps I should do the same.. I've spent too many hours trying to wrap my head around subvolumes, caching drives and compression.
I don't even have multiple drives..

plain anchor
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I install and forget too

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Even tho every installation i select different FS, i see no difference between them

trim berry
plain anchor
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Yes, i just do mkfs.btrfs and thats all