Ext 4 Vs Xfs. BTRFS was built with an aim of expanding the functionality of the file system so as to include pooling, snapshots, checksums and more. I don't know anything about XFS (I thought unRaid was entirely btrfs before this thread).
I don't know anything about XFS (I thought unRaid was entirely btrfs before this thread). I'm not asking "What is the best filesystem?"—There is no As in a corporate setting, I would definitely take the time to run benchmarks with my expected load, to get first-hand experience with performance vs features. XFS is about as mainline as a non-ext filesystem gets under Linux.
Feel free to comment if you have a preference for one vs the other.
I don't know anything about XFS (I thought unRaid was entirely btrfs before this thread).
XFS is about as mainline as a non-ext filesystem gets under Linux. BTRFS was built with an aim of expanding the functionality of the file system so as to include pooling, snapshots, checksums and more. As you can imagine there is not a single and simple answer to these questions because it depends on a number of variables - so I tried to eliminate most of them.