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natalie[ee]@0x6e6174@mastodon.catgirl.cloud (2026-07-24 06:29:09)
duckduckfedi does anyone in my local fedi bubble use a filesystem with transparent compression and deduplication on their personal computer? I am thinking about repartitioning my drive with such a setup and I am curious about the performance impacts of having my /home compressed. currently, my /home is 1.4tb raw, 926.44gb with lz4 compression, and 769gb deduplicated and compressed. at present an operation like fd '.*' . -uuu takes  about 10 seconds to run against my entire home partition. running rg against my entire home partition takes about 1m22.857s. does anyone with a system like the one I intend on creating have benchmarks for how long similar operations take when using transparent compression and dedup over the filesystem?
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💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org (2026-07-24 08:10:15)
@0x6e6174@catgirl.cloud i use btrfs and have found it to be amazingly stable and reliable. it has different types of compression available
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs
On my orange pi5 ultra sbc, I didn't even know the installer had set it up with compression till your question prompted me to look it up. it has zstd compression on 30% of files. idk which ones. its an ssd and is super fast.