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Would you Wipe your phone for F2FS?

BiscuitMassacre
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My OnePlus 3 runs on the EXT4 file system, but recently OnePlus updated their software to support the faster F2FS system. In order for it to work, I have to perform a System Wipe. (loose all my data). Do you think it's worth the trouble. I can backup most of my data, but probably not all of it. And it is a pain regardless. 

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7 minutes ago, BiscuitMassacre said:

My OnePlus 3 runs on the EXT4 file system, but recently OnePlus updated their software to support the faster F2FS system. In order for it to work, I have to perform a System Wipe. (loose all my data). Do you think it's worth the trouble. I can backup most of my data, but probably not all of it. And it is a pain regardless. 

If it was going to be noticeably faster while launching games. Other than that, no.

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11 minutes ago, BiscuitMassacre said:

My OnePlus 3 runs on the EXT4 file system, but recently OnePlus updated their software to support the faster F2FS system. In order for it to work, I have to perform a System Wipe. (loose all my data). Do you think it's worth the trouble. I can backup most of my data, but probably not all of it. And it is a pain regardless. 

Do you have storage related performance issues on the OnePlus 3?

 

Honestly switching to F2FS should be a minimal performance benefit at best. On SD and eMMC it can make a huge difference, but on UFS (the OnePlus 3 should be UFS) and NVMe the difference is pretty negligible. With certain controllers EXT will actually be faster at several tasks like SQLite, and slower at others but with less than a 10% performance difference either way in the worst case.

 

Phoronix did a recent test of EXT4 vs F2FS vs Btrfs on an NVMe drive and their findings reflect my own with UFS drives.

 

TL;DR: Unless you're the type of person to sit there and fiddle with your kernel setting to tweak every last possible kb/s out of your network, I wouldn't say it's worth it.

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Well, how much faster is F2FS? If it's just minor transfer rate improvements I'd say don't bother, but I suppose if you're a heavy power user and you would really benefit from the extra speed perhaps it's worth it. 

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I wouldn't just to much work for a minimal gain 

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