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Ehm, what distro supports xfs out of the box and what are the guides like for setting it up? Also, it seems to be missing features like COW or data checksums (b
by jplayer01 8y ago
Ehm, what distro supports xfs out of the box and what are the guides like for setting it up? Also, it seems to be missing features like COW or data checksums (bitrot says hello), and data deduplication seems to still be experimental. Doesn't seem like the next-gen filesystem we should be hoping for.
- kevml 8y agoRedhat and CentOS use XFS by default.
- jplayer01 8y agoReally not a fan of their package managers.
- boomboomsubban 8y agoWhen you're installing you can select something like "manually set the partitions/disks" and format XFS with basically any distro. It's part of the kernel, and I can't remember installing a distro without that option.
- zbentley 8y agoIf by that you mean "these distros support XFS, but I don't use them for other reasons (package managers)" . . . OK. Don't use them. But don't criticize a filesystem for unrelated tradeoffs that OSes that support it happen to make.
- blattimwind 8y ago> Ehm, what distro supports xfs out of the box Basically all of them. > what are the guides like for setting it up? Choose "xfs" instead of "ext4" in the installer. > Doesn't seem like the next-gen filesystem we should be hoping for. XFS was an early journaling file system. It wasn't designed to be next-gen, it was designed to be fast, service soft-realtime I/O demands and handle large volumes well.