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Btrfs is cool because it supports snapshots, if you don't plan on using these, just go with ext4
I don't use snapshots but i love the compression.
Not just snapshots. Also compression and CoW.
Umm correct if um wrong but cant you make a snapshot of ant file system
Sure, but btrfs has some built-in tools for this and makes it pretty easy