[ale] xfs vs. ext4

[Chuck Payne]

I am seeing ZFS and BrFS  ( ButterFS ) in more place.

I don't like XFS because you can't shrink it. If it a virt, I still like to
use ext4 ove XFS.

Pup

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:20 PM Brian Stanaland via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> 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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