XFS was pretty good in the olden days of IRIX - as in twenty years ago when 2Gb SCSI disks were pretty much all you had to work with. The small disks of that t

XFS was pretty good in the olden days of IRIX - as in twenty years ago when 2Gb SCSI disks were pretty much all you had to work with. The small disks of that time and the fact that you weren't running a 'DOS' file system meant that formatting disks for some new partition was par for the course and a regular task. There were GUI tools to make it easy but invariably the command line was how things got done. Clearly there were unusual SGI users that needed 'peta-byte' sized file systems and XFS was designed with those guys in mind. So, one way or another, XFS has been thoroughly tested, the small disks of that time probably helped with that as more disk chores were needed. I am glad to see some SGI making it into mainstream linux computing.