Advantages of Btrfs over Ext4
- Btrfs uses a checksum to ensure that the data doesn’t corrupt, on the other hand, Ext4 doesn’t ensure data integrity.
- Btrfs come with compression algorithms present in the filesystem, allowing data to be compressed at the filesystem level right when written to the system.No such built-in compression support is in Ext4.
- Btrfs removes duplicate data from disk directly while Ext4 cannot do that,
- Btrfs support CoW so users can create writable and read-only snapshots of files. Ext4 lacks this feature.
- Btrfs Can handle more data than Ext4.
Difference Between Ext4 VS Btrfs Filesystems in Linux
In simple terms, the filesystem is a database containing physical locations of files and data for easy retrieval at the time when it is needed. With the help of the Filesystem, the operating system controls how the data is stored and retrieved. File System usually contains files separated into groups known as directories which can hold files and furthermore directories in them. Also helps the system to store the files in the most efficient way possible.
Example:
- Ext4 and Btrfs Filesystems are pretty much well known for their performance in Linux environments.
- NTFS and FAT are known in Windows environments.
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