4 MAJOR LINUX FILE SYSTEM: EXT4 , XFS, ZFS, BTRFS

Fantastic explanation. Thank you!

good video , I've been searching for clear explanation about ex3,xfs and btrfs. thanks!

True that ZFS is proprietary, but OpenZFS is open source and not proprietary.

ZFS and btrfs have been and are still called copy on write systems, but they actually are more accurately redirect on write systems. It's similar to the confusion over gibibytes and gigabytes. They are not the same thing, but people use copy on write for both anyway. Bad practice.

So well explained thanks you Sir!

* googles a video on what copy-on-write is *

* Watches the whole video until we get to btrfs *

"copy on write makes it better overall"

alrighty then

Which one would you recommend for a) private usage b) big amounts of small files <1MB and which for c) mostly files around 0.5 to 1.6 GB and which if b & c or a, b and c come together?

Nice job! Simple clear video!

Thank you so much for this video! This is the first time I have seen anyone answer my curiosity about what the difference in each filesystem was and why one would be more desirable than another.
Please keep doing the esoteric topics that many would be interested in but don't know where to get the info.
I am trying to kick my Microsoft habit completely. Unfortunately, I have been a junkie since Dos 2.

btrfs with subvolumes are the best choice i think. Now it's working rly good

cool! thanks

started the vid and can u pls talk a bit quieter, so i can hear the bugs fucking outside

ok ok, what we doing here. I kinda like this.

What kind of keep me from using anything else then ext4 is that all other have less support. btrfs seems to be equally supported but zfs is not even supported in the Kernel by Standard. I think you have to load it into the Kernel with some non GPL licence. Not really what i want to do

I've been searching for clear explanation about current file systems for a couple of hours... and too be honest your video nailed it completely, thanks for sharing and enlighten our minds with your knowledge buddy!

A very good explanation. Thank you for that

just excellent

Very nice sir

Great Video, though the many important features of ZFS are not covered [ e.g. transparent compression ]. Secondly, ZFS for Linux is an open source project. Thirdly, BTRFS is not a matured file system by any standard. BTRFS Raid functionality is incomplete [ Especially Raid 5 and Raid 6 ] . You have not also not covered XFS file system comparison with EXT4.
Based on the available file system, its features, performance, scalability, there is no doubt that ZFS stands on # 1 spot.

Do u recommend MAC or Windows for a beginner to purchase a laptop

Man thank you so much for this video, i always wanted a deeper analysis on Linux filesystems!

This is wonderful, thanks for detailed explanations.

Autistic commenter here, I have a 6502 with a Quickdisk drive. I don't think it uses a file system, the drive cannot randomly access data either. There are probably other media out there without a file system like maybe C64 tapes.

Great video! I really like how you explained what a file system is and the major features and limitations.
I just need to add XFS also supports Copy-on-Write. I think this is important consideration when picking a file system.
Also currently BtrFS has some drawbacks compared to ZFS, namely BtrFS doesn't fully support Encryption, RAID 5/6, adaptive endanness or caching mechanisms like L2ARC or SLOG.
Which are not really big problems though. I like to think of it like this, if it's for home use pick BtfFS, if it's for work or sensitive data pick ZFS.

Short but detailed description, thank you for your effort!

Startet with XFS over 10 years ago; used EXT4 a while later; nearly started using btrfs in the beginning of 2017 but using ZFS since than and I'm very happy with it! Looking forward to bcachefs in the next few years. Nice video!

Happy to use btrfs for years, saved my life more than once.

From my unfortunate experience, indian accent is a good predictor of low quality content on YT, so I can't even express how happy I was to watch this amazing, extremely informative, concise yet comprehensive summary–thank you so much 🙇🏻‍♂️ !

Very good in depth video. Thank you!
But there is one thing to correct. btrfs is only better on paper, in reality its raid support is still experimental and it has problems using disk space even when it is telling the user, that enough disk space is left. It's not uncommon that it tells you after a copy operation, that it doesn't have enough disk space, even when it is claiming the opposite at first place.
The best FS at the moment of these 4 is ZFS. But because of its license, it can't be incorporated into the Linux kernel. Thus it's only working in user space in Linux.
As a consequence you usually can only choose between ext4 and XFS on Linux, while btrfs is too unreliable. Because of that, Red Hat discarded btrfs on their distribution and switched to XFS.

Your channel is soo underrated, great videos with clear explanations, thank you!

Good video 👍

Great video. :)
The best fs comes at the end.

My top 9000 filesystems (lower number, btr;) :
1 BTRFS
2 ZFS
3 XFS
3.5 forgot the name, there is a solid sdcard fs, or use BTRFS
4 EXT4

… there are many others which are solid in high ranks, but my name memory sucks hard and you should just use fat32 for UEFI /boot/efi and BTRFS for all the rest including /boot and don’t forget encrypting boot as well with LUKS, LUKS is great btw I use Arch.

Then comes:

8998 APFS
8999 HFS
9000 NTFS
9001 exFAT
9002 FAT32
9003 VFAT
9004 FAT16
… I’m not old enough for more


NTFS just sucks in my view, but it’s technically better than the things I listed below it.
fat32 is ok to use it only for /boot/efi


On non EFI you can use a ext4, xfs, fat32 for /boot, idk if BTRFS works there. Fat is guaranteed to work for a big fat boot party, in case it doesn’t work on old hardware with e.g. xfs. 🚣 🎉


XFS can’t be shrieked but extended.
That besides, when no BTRFS features are needed, it’s a great FS, but using BTRFS can’t hurt I guess, it’s the future in my view.

Greetings. :) 🖖

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This is a fantastic video! I love how clearly you explain these linux filesystems. Thank you!

Nice video
But volume is too low
Even in your other previous videos

Very nicely explained.👍

Which presentation software using?

Thanks ❤️

Audio ia too low..

Your audio is too low...

BTRFS user here

nice video, bro! thanks!

I think it's worth noting that XFS has the fastest start-up time and it ages much better then BTRFS.
All of the advanced features others offer aren't really worth the hassle for home users...

good video, will study more about the mentioned file systems