@Natanox i don't know why, but btrfs has been a pain every time i tried to use it. ext4 is rock solid, but btrfs might be a better option if you can get it to work

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I'd go for btrfs because of the data integrity and flexibility at changing usage. Stick to RAID1 (c3/4 optional) or RAID10.

ZFS has integrity but less flexibility and isn't integrated with the kernel.

Ext4 is rock solid, but lacks the data integrity unless used with mdadm and dm-integrity, but could be too slow.

In any of the cases, a good backup is still vital.

(personally, I use btrfs RAID1 for years on #Debian and now #Devuan)

@Natanox actually, I'd use ext4 on lvm, so you've got the snapshot feature.
I've been using this setup for many many years and never had any problems, except hardware defects.

@Natanox Btrfs with opensuse will do the job

@Natanox I've known too many people who thought btrfs was stable until it went foom at them. Maybe now it is stable enough, but people have thought that before. The main disadvantage with zfs is booting off it, which may or may not work depending on distro and setup.

@Natanox my choice would be zfs because anecdotally I’ve had the least problems with it. If not zfs, ext4.

@Natanox I generally recommend ext4 + rsync for desktops if stability is the key. Btrfs is close, though. Particularly if you're on a distro that's got good documentation on it.

Right now I'm trying btrfs on my regular desktop for the first time, and it's not terrible.

I tend to think ext4+rsync are easier in a disaster recovery scenario, and they're still dirt easy to test. That's a subjective opinion though.

@Natanox i use option 3 but I am an amateur and I really have no idea if its the *best* option

@Natanox voted zfs but likely it's zfs with a minimal ext4 root, so that you can skirt the issues with root + zfs.

jfs2

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@Natanox I'm a lazy guy, so on my desktop machine I'm using Ubuntu with ext4 (and LUKS). I also switched from my own Linux server to off-the-shelf NAS a long time ago. On the different devices I had since then Netgear (ReadyNAS) and Synology (DS920+) were using btrfs. Western Digital (PR4100) used ext4 (I think Synology also offered this as option). No device supported zfs.

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needs more LVM with the ext4 option

@Natanox the stone tablet and chisel is much more effective

@Natanox Thats my setup (a simple @opensuse #Tumbleweed setup):

lsblk /dev/nvme0n1 -l
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
nvme0n1 259:0 0 476,9G 0 disk
nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi

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@Natanox it depends on the OS, btrfs is great on Fedora and OpenSuse, OpenSuse being the best due to the integrated snapshots on updates. I've been using on Fedora for a couple of years without issue. I like ZFS, works great on BSD but personally found it a bit against the grain on Linux, but its getting there! If you're talking about a file/data drives as opposed to OS, defo go ZFS

@Natanox This is unbeatable:

https://es.opensuse.org/Snapper_Rollback

@Natanox #openSUSE #Tumbleweed use btrfs since years as default. In the beginning it was a little bit tricky with the snapshot size. But since about more than 5 years it is pretty stable as root file-system on my desktop as well on my server.
Benfit:
* Raid 0/1 Support out of the box
* Increasing / Decreasing on a running system
* snapshot with Rallback on boot if a update fails (on the most distros)
* Some nice features which are not present in my head ;-)

@Natanox in almost all cases, you'll be better off just backing up stuff regularly with deja-dup / duplicity [included in @ubuntu LTS Desktop per default] or #rsync and use #btrfs since unlike #ext4 and #ZFS, it'll be less straining in terms of write operations [which are the limiting factor of SSDs] and you don't want to use "journal-less ext4" outside of embedded devices!...

#ZFS is great for NASes and Server but there is a reason why not even #Canonical defaults to using it on #Desktop.

@Natanox lvm snapshots+something, or xfs snapshots when that lands