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		5e92cb50239222b on May 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The SGI XFS Filesystem > there are flash-dedicated filesystems that will beat ext in performance and reliability If you mean f2fs, it really won't. Be careful with it. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc19-jaffer.pdf The paper is old at this point, but I found a fresh PhD thesis from the same author from 2023, and it seems to re-confirm these findings.

DiabloD3 on May 13, 2023 [–]

That sucks. I know a lot of Android users that prefer f2fs over ext* due to reliability and performance concerns, and seem to at least have some concrete reason to believe so.

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