Linux Administration Cookbook

How it works...

Realistically, it doesn't work.

In a perfect world, we would have one filesystem that worked across each OS and was suited for every task, but the truth of the matter is that there's always going to be some filesystems that are better at some jobs than others.

At the time of writing, Red Hat defaults to using XFS as its filesystem of choice, a journaling filesystem that was created in 1993. Before that, the default was the ext family of filesystems, which some distributions (such as Debian) continue to use.

OpenSUSE likes btrfs at the minute, though how much that's likely to change is anyone's guess, especially as the likes of Red Hat have just decided against including it in future versions.

This is also all before getting ...