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My understanding is that XFS was designed for big media files. With the advance in SSD, HDD will be mainly used for big files, so XFS may yet end up dominating
by anabis 11y ago
My understanding is that XFS was designed for big media files.
With the advance in SSD, HDD will be mainly used for big files, so XFS may yet end up dominating.
I don't know if ext4 is equally good on the SSD or not.
- andyana 11y agoI've always used XFS when I expect lots of small files. Maybe 10 or 15 years ago, I was benchmarking filesystems to store maildirs; XFS was the fastest by far when it came to directory scans. I'm not sure if that's still the case, but I haven't had a reason to re-examine.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoXFS was designed for use by the company that made these [1] bad boys. They did it and a clustered variant. Their systems worked on both large files for media and applications where lots of small data had to be processed in parallel (or just faster). So, it was general purpose albeit tilted for the big stuff a bit. I never benchmarked it, though, so I won't speculate about what's better for small files. "With the advance in SSD, HDD will be mainly used for big files, so XFS may yet end up dominating." Good point. We're already seeing that with all the videos and games. So, there might be a resurgence of XFS use. I doubt it will dominate, though, unless it stays the default in enough distro's. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=SGI+Origin&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=SGI+Origin&ia=images