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Ext4 with backups
This for sure. As a general rule of thumb, I use XFS for RPM-based distros like Red Hat and SuSE, EXT4 for Debian-based.
I use ZFS if I need to do software RAID and I avoid BTRFS like the plague. BTRFS requires a lot of hand holding in the form of maintenance which is far from intuitive and I expect better from a modern filesystem (especially when there are others that do the same job hassle free). I have had FS-related issues on BTRFS systems more than any other purely because of issues with how it handles data and metadata.
In saying all that, if your data is valuable then ensure you do back it up and you won’t need to worry about failures so much.
Hey, thanks for the help. Can you elaborate on what kind of issues BTRFS gave you? What caused them, too?
It needs a bit of periodic maintenance, the btrfs-assistant and btrfsmaintenance packages will set it up and from then on it’s automatic.