Which filesystem for rest-server?

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I have set up a rest-server with a 100 TB iSCSI volume (hardware is Netapp SSD).
Which filesystem should I use for it?
btrfs, ext4 or xfs?

Since restic does its own versioning, I do not need btrfs snapshots.

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Personal preference? I use ZFS when I can, have used XFS but wasn’t a fan of the long fsck times with it, am also using Ext4 here and there.

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I use btrfs in a software RAID1 for years now. I had no issues but I can’t compare it to alternatives.

But if I wouldn’t use btrfs’s features I’d just use good old ext4.

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I would prefer ext4, just because that‘s the most used file system in my environment. Which file system are you most familiar with? Maybe you could take this under account

Having a look at the limitations every file system has enough reserves for growing your iSCSI disk in the future.

As a side note, maybe you can use NetApp snapshots for your disk. Just to have a safety copy if someone’s messing up the files.