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Why EXT4?Why EXT4?Posted Mar 17, 2009 20:15 UTC (Tue) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)In reply to: Why EXT4? by gmaxwell Parent article: Better than POSIX?
XFS is a fast, well-written, feature-packed, mature filesystem. Ever wonder why it isn't used more?
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Why EXT4? Posted Mar 18, 2009 1:08 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
Sure. Here are some:
1. It was written by SGI, so most distros don't have internal resources to support it. So, they ship other FSes as default.
2. Other FSes were historically the default, so upgrading to XFS is not that straightforward.
3. Some people unjustly accused this FS of loosing data, so it is taking a long time for the FS to get its reputation back. Even if all those that did the accusing published public retractions of their unfounded accusations, it would take a long time.
Why EXT4? Posted Mar 18, 2009 11:15 UTC (Wed) by arekm (subscriber, #4846) [Link]
I use XFS everywhere (laptop, busy web/database servers, desktops) for years and the only major problem I had was NULLing files on crashes (fortunately this problem is fixed in 2.6.22+).
Otherwise I'm very happy with xfs and I'll continue to use it.
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