[ale] xfs vs. ext4

[Brian Stanaland]

XFS is still under active development at HPE. We put it on clusters and big
storage as CXFS.

https://psnow.ext.hpe.com/doc/PSN1010144466USEN.pdf

HPE may have bought us but there are still a lot of the same people working
on it.

Brian


On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:12 AM Justin Goldberg via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> I thought ZFS was the one with the brightest future?
>
> I do realize that there's six high quality linux journaling filesystem
> projects for linux (high quality but not necessarily high quality on linux
> as in the case of AdvFS):
>
> ReiserFS (this project was killed, no pun intended)
> SGI XFS
> DEC AdvFS, never went anywhere, ported to hpux, source is available
> IBM JFS
> ZFS, still chugging along and is starting to be used in some places,
> freenas/truenas, QNAP's QuTS appliance etc...
> EXT4, known to be used at Google afaik, public talks mention it's use due
> to the upgrade path from their historical EXT2 usage (I previously worked
> at Google as smart hands and a network operations engineer, but I did not
> see into their systems at this level)
>
> Did I miss any?
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:10 PM James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> It also deals much better with large files than ext (e.g. on a DVR like
>>> Mythtv).  I put XFS onto my newest Myth Backend and it's working very
>>> well.
>>>
>>
>> I use JFS for that. Mainly because fscks and deletes are super fast. It's
>> also a nice file system for large files.
>>
>>
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