Why use anything other than ext4?

>>105948683 (OP)
XFS has CoW. and usually faster on large files. literally no downsides other than you cant shrink volumes after you create them but who the fuck does that

>>105948683 (OP)
I fell for the btrfs meme and I regreted it so much

>>105948683 (OP)
never tried to

>>105948882
Is it true that you cant covert it to ntfs without manually backing up the files and carrying them to ext4

>>105948683 (OP)
Because ZFS

>>105948683 (OP)
For internet points.

>>105949691
What advantages does it have over ext4?

>>105949691
shit because of licensing

>>105949817
Snapshots, storage pools, checksumming and, unlike LVM & mdadm, it has a nice management toolset.

>>105949861
I never gave a fuck about licensing. GPL/MIT/BSD they all means open source to me

>>105948683 (OP)
Because bcachefs

>>105949988
>I never gave a fuck about licensing. GPL/MIT/BSD they all means open source to me
Now tell that to Oracle.

>>105949988
>I never gave a fuck about licensing. GPL/MIT/BSD they all means open source to me
shitty licensing means that ZFS can't be incorporated into Linux retard
Using it requiring jumping through OpenZFS hoops

>>105948882
how bad is it?
i have always used ext4

>>105950031
Works fine on my OS. Maybe don't use a horrible kernel then complain about using horrible kernel.

Nothing is stopping anyone from cleanly integrating the two. Other than the FSF and their empty threats of suing anyone that doesn't follow their manifesto. In other words, you and everyone else in your "community" are fucking cowards.

>>105951228
>Nothing is stopping anyone from cleanly integrating the two
binaries can't be distributed legally
>Other than the FSF and their empty threats of suing anyone that doesn't follow their manifesto
FSF can't do shit, Oracle are the ones that can randomly decide to sue anyone over CDDL/GPL violation

>>105948882
I did too because I wanted to be able to tell if data was corrupted. Only annoyance I've had is having to get used to deleting files and not seeing the space freed up like people are used to.

>>105948683 (OP)
Btrfs is good (not great). Snapshots, corruption indication, transparent compression, (basic) software RAID... it's been pretty decent for me, personally. I don't use the RAID though. I just send snapshots to another disk, and if my main drive goes down, I can just use the snapshots from the other drive to rebuild on a new drive. Deleting snapshots takes absolutely forever though. Non-mirror RAID setups have historically been risky too. Between snapshots not performing optimally, and useful RAID configs not being recommended, I'm looking forward to when I can move over to Bcachefs. Not sure when that'll be though.

>>105948683 (OP)
Because my distro defaults to btrfs