[ale] xfs vs. ext4

[pizza at shaftnet.org (Solomon Peachy)]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 10:19:47AM -0500, Chuck Payne wrote:
> I have notices that both openSUSE and CentOS 7 have move away from ext4 as
> the default filesystem to XFS, any reason why?
> 
> What does XFS give that ext4 doesn't?

In short, it scales much, much better, especially with server loads, but 
also with the increasingly multi-threaded desktop loads of modern 
systems.

It allows much (much!) larger filesystems than ext4 and you don't have 
to wait a couple of hours to run disk consistency checks.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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