A year ago I set up Ubuntu server with 3 ZFS pools on my server, normally I don’t make copies of very large files but today I was making a copy of a ~30GB directory and I saw in rsync that the transfer doesn’t exceed 3mb/s (cp is also very slow).

What is the best file system that “just works”? I’m thinking of migrating everything to ext4

EDIT: I really like the automatic pool recovery feature in ZFS, has saved me from 1 hard drive failure so far

  • SayCyberOnceMore
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    1•4 months ago

    Never had an issue with EXT4.

    Had a problem on a NAS where BTRFS was taking “too long” for systemD to check it, so just didn’t mount it… bit of config tweaking and all is well again.

    I use EXT* and BTRFS where ever I can because I can manipulate it with standard tools (inc gparted).

    I have 1 LVM system which was interesting, but I wouldn’t do it that way in the future (used to add drives on a media PC)

    And as for ZFS … I’d say it’s very similar to BTRFS, but just slightly too complex on Linux with all the licensing issues, etc. so I just can’t be bothered with it.

    As a throw-away comment, I’d say ZFS is used by TrusNAS (not a problem, just sayin’…) and… that’s about it??

    As to the OPs original question, I agree with the others here… something’s not right there, but it’s probably not the filesystem.