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I'm intrigued by this. By chance do you have a source or more info?
I ask as I've had BTRFS on my NVME drive since 2018 and even with "natural bloat" of the system, it still boots up in, let me turn it on and count.... 13 seconds.
My only point of personal reference is computer it replaced with was all HDD (from 2006), so I'm really curious if I'm missing out on performance gains and just don't realize it.
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Where does this come from? I have BTRFS on all my drives (a Samsung 970 EVO Plus as / and two WD Red 8T in Raid1 for /home) and cannot say that my performance stinks when compared with when I used ext4.
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There is bcachefs in development as a future replacement for it, but it's taking a long time to mature.
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Actually, how is the performance for /home for you? My main anxiety towards moving /home off of my NVME is that I'd lose out on performance in a major way.
Or in other words, how much difference does NVME vs SATA have in terms of games?
Never had /home on NVMe, I moved from single SATA for whole disk to Raid6 on 3 SATA for whole disk to splitting / and /boot to a NVMe and later moved /home from my Raid6 to two new SATA drives. Would have preferred to be able to have /home on NVMe as well but 8TB drives don't come cheap there...
A word of warning on the Kingston A2000 though, you might get an occasional controller lockup using this SSD with steam games updating.. so far I've not observed it do it with any other SSD or application.. why? I don't know, I even updated the firmware, still same issue.
With that said, the kernel will successfully reset the controller and the drive will continue working.
But I can also speak highly of the Crucial X8 2TB Portable drives, I've got two of those and while they do get hot, they also perform well for games without and problems, so long as you have a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port.
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The gist is use btrfs for HDD and SSD if you like those features (I like them), but stick to ext4/xfs for NVMe and USB stick. btrfs was 30% slower than the other filesystems on the 970 according to the multiple tests in this article.
FWIW, this is how my storage is set up:
NVMe for OS
Another NVMe for games and development apps
RAID0 SSD for, yes, more games
Spinning disk for large, mostly static files
Looking at the article it seams to be the Intel 530 and BTRFS had the same performance increase going from SSD to NVMe as the other filesystems. But then I have just been able to look at the free sample pages so perhaps there are some missing from the actual magazine. Yes BTEFS is slower than every other FS but that is due to BTRFS sacrificing performance for features (most importantly checksumming). That ext4 was slowed on SSD than BTRFS looks to be some misconfiguration because it shouldn't be.