[ale] XFS the default in RHEL 7?

[Jim Kinney]

ext4 has some nasty bugs that block use of filesystems larger than
40-something TB. Ext4 SUPPORTS massively larger filesystems that 40TB but
due to an implementation bug (that isn't getting fixed for some reason)
it's stuck. I recently setup a 56TB drive array and XFS was perfectly
happy. EXT4 just choked. Tested with a Fedora 18 and a rawhide just to see
WTF and yep, even Debian has the issue.

So XFS will handle exabytes. So will ext4 eventually.


On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> Interesting...
>
> https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/xfs-the-file-system-of-choice/
> Allen B.
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