A short guide for choosing a local file system
So we have a linux machine and couple of new “drives” (block devices), and we want to put a few (millions of) files on these. Local drives, nothing fancy or distributed - which means normal, regular linux filesystems.
We may or may not have SSDs, and we may or may not have a hardware RAID already.
Why it’s never Ext4? Pretty much the only place you’d want to use ext4 now is /boot.
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