# GEFS filesystem

13 Hacker News commenters recommended GEFS filesystem and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Smaller, permissively licensed filesystem that people find stable and a modern FFS replacement; critics say it can't match ZFS in many uses.

## Why people recommend it

- Stable in everyday use (2 comments): "I have been running GEFS for a number of days and it hasnt crashed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716894)) "It worked fine in my n270 based Atom netbook under 9front" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716198))
- Modern, much-needed FFS replacement (2 comments): "But also bribgs a lot of hope and happiness" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722772)) "it's a modern, much needed FFS replacement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716751))
- Competitive with ZFS, permissively licensed (2 comments): "it's good enough to compete with ZFS while being way smaller and permissively licensed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716329)) "neither ZFS, Hammer2 or GEFS suffer from this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722816))

## What people warn about

- Can't match ZFS in many uses (1 comments): "it can't compete with ZFS in many use cases" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718788))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "GEFS filesystem", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gefs/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).