File Systems | Which One is the Best? ZFS, BTRFS, or EXT4

43 thoughts on “File Systems | Which One is the Best? ZFS, BTRFS, or EXT4”

1. You hate raid 5 because you assume people have infinite money

2. I used for years ext4 now i use btrfs

3. I don't get his opinion on RAID6. I have an 18 drive RAID6 array. This means I get the performance of 32 drives in RAID10 while being able to tolerate failure of any two drives. The way I see it, RAID10 is only useful if you need quick rebuild times after a drive failure.

4. BtrFS RAID1 to RAID10 upgrade was too easy. I'll never run BtrFS without mirroring again. Some file would corrupt and without data mirroring I couldn't figure out how to fix it. The only option was to track down the file and erase it. But I've got my OS installed on a 4x2TB NVME RAID10 and I haven't had issues since. I'm a tinkerer, can't leave well enough alone, it's not fixed till it's beyond repair and such, so making it past 6 months is an achievement and I think it's coming up on a year now! Haven't broken BTW OS Arch either! This build has been the best computer experience of my life.

5. Raid 10 halves your capacity, its ok but there's a cost and its disk space 😂

6. A rant on why NTFS sucks would be entertaining. Otherwise this video is mostly just rambling and personal opinions, and not much of an objective comparison between the filesystems like i was expecting.

7. 1:23 hahaha

8. Goes on a rant $$hiting on Windows file systems then continues to talk about incompability and paying a license for ZFS usage… 😂These Linux fanboys are a trip.

9. I love btrfs with snapper

10. @ChrisTitusTech any updates on this in 5 years?

11. Here I am waiting for my hard drives arrive to finish my first NAS. So happy to learn new knowledge and hearing people talk s**t about file system.

12. hmm, now I got more questions than before

13. How does someone misuse a filesystem? lol. I only use raid 0 on windows.
    on my linux machines everything is setup as AHCI.
    btrfs in my cause (currpted 4 times in a week).

    I dont do anything special, just code in c++, run discord, and watch youtube.
    Not a single system modification in this current system, and 4 corruptions in a single week (unable to moun sysroot.)

14. btrfs is utter trash. Been using linux for 20 plus years…
    decided to try btrfs, my system broke 4 times in a week… Unabme to mount sysroot… every time.

    simple fix with a live iso, but its utter trash, broken, should not be used by anybody in its current state.

    Never had issues with NTFS, EXT4

15. I like raid zero for gaming

16. I've been using BTRFS for 15 years. I love using TimeShift to mange my BTRFS snapshots. If I want to tinker with some software I can sandbox my entire system, experiment to my heart's content, then roll everything back when I'm done.

17. Snapshots DO NOT remove the need for backups!

18. BTRFS is hot garbage, and I can’t listen to anyone recommending it.

19. There is a LCARS running in the Background – is that funktional? If yes – make a video about that!

20. i just had a flashback to defragging…. shudder. Lol.

21. what is hammer fs then i cant find anything on it

22. what is hammer fs then i cant find anything on it

23. the dislikes are because he bashed raid 5/6

24. RAID6 is good for storage.

25. 6:30 you have no clue what you are talking about.
    Raid5 requires ONE extra disk (not TWICE as many) and protects you from failure of ANY disk in the array.

    4 disks in radi10 only protect you against ONE drive failure. 4 disks in raid6 protect you against TWO drive failures, while providing the same storage and near the same read and write performance in practice.
    So you either suck at math or are fine with cutting your storage in half or a third and still be at the mercy of a correlated failure, so you suck at basic engineering.

26. ZFS also has a number of issues and shortcomings that haven't been addressed in years, and are unlikely to be fixed any time soon, or ever.
    You can't detach drives, or shrink the filesystem, or reshape an array (add more parity), and it doesn't know about SSD particulatities.

27. Please make a 10 Min Rant on how bad Windows Filesystem is.

28. Lots of rambling and opinions not backed up by facts.

29. is there away to defrag zfs?

30. RAID10 is the most common nested RAID level. Another common one is RAID50. I’d rather use either RAID6 or RAID50 than RAID60.
    I’d rather use RAID4 or RAID6 than RAID-DP, which is double dedicated parity.

31. Btrfs can be pronounced Better-FS, butter-FS, or by just spelling it out “bee-tee-ar-eff-ess,” but I think “Bee-tree-eff-ess” is the catchiest.

32. I’ve heard that ext2 can be converted to ext3 and ext3 to ext4 without having to erase all data and reformat, and ext4 can be converted into Btrfs. I think at least one of these is reversible, but at least one of these is not. I don’t know which ones.

33. I am not a fan of ZFS. Why? ZFS doesn’t support adding individual disks to vdevs, only adding vdevs to a pool, and ZFS does not support mixing drives of different sizes, at least not without wasting the storage of the larger disks. That’s why I like Btrfs and OCFS2, or alternatively using the open-source LVM2 or the proprietary Veritas Volume Manager to store ext4.
    I don’t like XFS because it doesn’t support shrinking of volumes. That’s what I like better about JFS2 and the proprietary VxFS.

34. Raid 6 is great because ANY 2 disks can fail and you don't lose data. With Raid 1 and 10 if 2 disks fail that are in the same group, you lose all your data.

35. raid6 a hot spare??? hahahah no… it's a dual parity, good for storing, but horrible for rebuilding as it needs to bruteforce galois fields, without an ASIC, and after a few weeks of being damaged it can become impossible to recover specially on larger sizes over 30TB… heheheheh

36. This video had so much potential. I'm the end, I felt like I wasted my time watching the video. It explained nothing about how each of the filesystems work or the differences in the technologies. I was hoping this video would explain how each of these filesystems work.

37. Chris, what about OpenZFS? Did you even know that it exists? Why would anyone encourage us not to use it? Oracle can't sue anyone for using OpenZFS, since its FREE, its OPEN, grab and take it, and even sell products based on it with 72-size characters showed as OpenZFS.

38. Some harsh hate for the RAID6! Are you also against it with hardware RAID systems? Many of my branch servers are RAID6 with hot-spares on-board for redundancy. (the biggest challenge is trying to get your SSDs with staggered manufacture batches IMO, as the stress of rebuilding a dead drive can cause one of its siblings who were born on the same day to die from exhaustion)

39. Except ZFS is expensive, it uses a lot of RAM & it makes the system use a bit more power constantly…

    RAID5 is not "Just another drive for RAID 10 with no downsides"… Not at all…
    RAID5: 4x12TB drives 36TB RAID with a failover. I use this (& yes it's not a Backup, it's backed up somewhere else as well) with retired Enterprise Drives, I've gotten them as low as $70 for a 12TB drive, & I have had drives fail, I replace the failed drive & it works, rebuilds never take very long either.
    RAID10: 4x12TB drives give me 24TB… That's significantly less than 32TB. Sure I COULD use 3x12TB drives with RAID5 & get less efficient 24TB, but nobody does that, Most RAID5 setups have 4 or more drives.
    I agree on RAID6 & personally just make sure I have a COLD spare & an alternate backup when a Disk fails I swap in the COLD spare & force a sync with the backup. RAID6 just has the benefit of having a drive being worn a little before it's actually put to use…

40. Any file system that allows defrag. Who remembers PC Tools and Norton defrag! 😉

41. woah whats that star trek thing in the rack?!

42. Nice video … Thanks

43. I was hoping for a more detailed comparison.

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