Nope - there are other problems with xfs

Nope - there are other problems with xfs

Posted Jan 23, 2009 10:03 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: ext4 over xfs by clump
Parent article: Ext4 to be standard for Fedora 11, Btrfs also included (heise online)

Actually it all is related to any stress-conditions. Fill the XFS partition with bittorrent-downloaded files (no pre-allocate!) and the only way to save this partition is to backup everything and restore from backup. Yes, it's nasty thing to do with the FS (bittorrent with pre-allocate more- or-less equals to creation of files from pieces in random order and if you fill the FS to 100% there are no way to radically optimize layout - because all files must be sparse or else they'll not fit), but I still expect that any sane filesystem will be slow after that, not dead. XFS failed this test consistently for a few years in row and eventually I've just stopped caring and stopped using it...

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