btrfs or EXT4

[dkobelak]

not sure if anyone has much experience with this, especially that it is new to Asustor.. I will be recreating my volume and I'm debating if i should stick to EXT4 or the new btrfs.. i read some older posts from other forums and it seems there was some issues with btrfs RAID if running as RAID5/6.. i dont think i will be using snapshots at all for now so I don't really care for that feature..
i mostly have very large video files stored on the NAS and that's about it.. anyone has any insight on btrfs and ASUSTOR?

[maxbraketorque]

Did you see my performance comparison between BTRFS and EXT4? BTRFS is overall a little slower. I've been using BTRFS for about two months without any issues. Whether its a better file system is not totally clear to me though.

[father.mande]

Hi,

I have moved from ext4 to btrfs when beta was arrived with it
... on my system I don't see any difference at usual works ... (not (unreal) benchmark) ... NAS have other bottleneck it lot of usage ...
... I have large video and media libraries and large DVD (Linux/Windows ISO) library

I move to btrfs for the future, now the first element (even btrfs access to or search a file is faster) is for snapshot (largely better than LVM snapshot) but also I bet on the arrival of all functionalities added by btrfs ... defragmentation(fragmentation exist in Linux but less visible before disk will be filled up to some % , defragmentation is important, for ex., for backup and to reduce on sequential access delay to move disk heads ), resize (+/-), expand, mirroring at F.S. level nor disk level, etc. etc.

Philippe.
NB just my opinion , please choice based on your own criteria and experience ...

[dkobelak]

thank you guys for the info!