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It says XFS only for data directory in the setup guide. Curious to why that is and how does this work in MAC if that's the case.

• steeve 6y ago
  Redpanda is built on top of Seastar, as is ScyllaDB, so the reasons might be closely related: https://www.scylladb.com/2016/02/09/qualifying-filesystems/ https://www.scylladb.com/2016/02/09/qualifying-filesystems/
• txdv 6y ago
  I was so happy about just running a single small binary for kafka, but then I saw this requirement that is harder to fulfill :/
  • agallego 6y ago
    Why, you can run on a single core and 1G of ram. We just give you optimal prod settings for saturating boxes. See rpk container
    • bithavoc 6y ago
      So I don’t need XFS to run a single-node Redpanda cluster?
      • agallego 6y ago
        correct. xfs is just what we test all the time.
• txdv 6y ago
  How much of a hard requirement is this? Can I play around on non XFS?
  • benpope 6y ago
    This is not a hard requirement, but XFS is highly recommended for production.
• agallego 6y ago
  Mostly for sparse file system support. We dispatch IO eagerly and out of order.