This is delightful, I look forward to the next couple decades it talks about. I default to XFS on all my linux systems for no particular reason other than fewer filesystem devs seem to complain about it than ext4. I notice no real difference as a user but occasionally as an admin there’s little bits and pieces that give me joy; you can expand the filesystem while it’s mounted for example, and its test suite is still apparently the gold standard among filesystems today.
It’s pretty neat to be able to point to something and say “this is probably the pinnacle of design using these assumptions” – spinning disks, journaling, not CoW and not integrating its own volume management and RAID. I like to think that in 25-50 years it will still be useful, in niche cases.
[XFS] still is the filesystem with the best scaling behavior, the best concurrency behavior, and the most consistent commit times, which makes it the preferred filesystem for any kind of database usage.
I didn’t know that. I’ve seen XFS before as an option when installing various Linux distros, but I’ve always assumed it was obsolete: don’t choose this one unless you have some legacy system that requires it. Never would have guessed that you might want to use it for a brand-new system.
This is delightful, I look forward to the next couple decades it talks about. I default to XFS on all my linux systems for no particular reason other than fewer filesystem devs seem to complain about it than ext4. I notice no real difference as a user but occasionally as an admin there’s little bits and pieces that give me joy; you can expand the filesystem while it’s mounted for example, and its test suite is still apparently the gold standard among filesystems today.
It’s pretty neat to be able to point to something and say “this is probably the pinnacle of design using these assumptions” – spinning disks, journaling, not CoW and not integrating its own volume management and RAID. I like to think that in 25-50 years it will still be useful, in niche cases.
I’m enjoying this series!
I didn’t know that. I’ve seen XFS before as an option when installing various Linux distros, but I’ve always assumed it was obsolete: don’t choose this one unless you have some legacy system that requires it. Never would have guessed that you might want to use it for a brand-new system.
IMO it has better code quality than ext4. I use it on my computers, and it performs pretty well.