I have two bad XFS experiences that stick out in my memory. I like XFS, don't get me wrong. I ran XFS on our Linux distribution/package mirror. We ended up h

I have two bad XFS experiences that stick out in my memory. I like XFS, don't get me wrong. I ran XFS on our Linux distribution/package mirror. We ended up having some sort of error and the filesystem wouldn't mount, so I tried running the fsck. After around a day, it bombed out with out of memory. I scrounged around, took down another server or two to max out the memory on the mirror server and eventually was able to get it to complete the fsck in a couple more days. For a while I ran XFS on my laptop. This was some Thinkpad that had fancy-pants graphics, and the graphics drivers made the system quite unstable It would oops every 2-4 hours of normal use. XFS had this bad habit at the time (long since fixed, IIRC) of reverting files to HOURS old data after the reboot. A peer of this comment mentioned btrfs. Around the same time I played around with btrfs. For around a year I ran a couple of my company laptops on btrfs with zero problems. Then, after one set of updates, both of them completely corrupted their filesystems. I stopped using it, hoping that btrfs would fairly quickly stabilize, but have never ended up going back to it. I love the idea of btrfs, but am a bit gun-shy. I used Reiser extensively for map tile file-systems, largely because their idea of a "small file" was 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller than most other filesystems. This particular use case was full world tiles, and a lot of them were solid blue (oceans, you know), I want to say 37 bytes. My current gig puts tiles on XFS and it works great for that. ZFS is a filesystem that has never let me down. Performance can often be spotty, especially if you think you can use dedup, but I've had some pretty bad things happen to ZFS volumes and have never lost data on one of them. It's really the only place I'll put archive data. I've run a lot of backup servers using ZFS, even back in the days of zfsfuse, and it's just been a workhorse. Even in early days when zfsfuse had some pretty obscure bugs and would choke about every month or two. Kudos to the zfs+fuse developers, they quickly tracked down every issue I ran into once I had a stress test use case going. EXT has been a real workhorse too. I've lost data, rarely, but considering it's 99% of the filesystems I've run over the decades... Pretty good track record. Veritas vx on HP-UX was like a space age filesystem back in the mid '90s, but also was kind of painful. My memories of it are just vague and bad. I'd love to have HAMMER under Linux. :-) Ok, discuss!