Filesystems on Linux: When Should You Not Use Ext4?
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If you spend any time researching filesystems available on Linux, you’ll end up stumbling upon ZFS. Similar to XFS, servers are the main target for ZFS. Similar to Btrfs, the maximum file size supported is 16EB (that’s exabytes), which currently isn’t even possible on Linux. It also uses LZ4, a faster compression algorithm than Btrfs, which uses zlib.
The main downside of ZFS is that you won’t find it as a preinstalled option on many distributions. It’s not difficult to install, as our guide to installing ZFS on Ubuntu shows, but it’s a further step that not everyone may want to take once they already have a system up and running.
While we won’t touch on every filesystem available on Linux, exFAT briefly deserves a mention. This is a version of the Windows FAT filesystem meant for flash drives, and is likely your best bet for removable drives if you want to use them with other operating systems.