Is NTFS on the way out?
Is NTFS on the way out?
Posted Jan 24, 2026 21:28 UTC (Sat) by dgc (subscriber, #6611)In reply to: Is NTFS on the way out? by wtarreau
Parent article: Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS
> Has it become better with small files ? I was using it a lot in the past,
> but I had to abandon it on my laptop for ext4 15 years ago when every
> git operation on my linux directory would make my disk seek for 30
> seconds before completing the operation.
> but I had to abandon it on my laptop for ext4 15 years ago when every
> git operation on my linux directory would make my disk seek for 30
> seconds before completing the operation.
Yes, most of major small file/metadata performance issues (in comparison to ext4) were fixed with the introduction of delayed logging in 2.6.36 (i.e. about 15 years ago). That improved transaction rates from being disk bound at a few hundred a second to being CPU bound at tens of thousands of transactions/second.
These days XFS can run a couple of million asynchronous transactions per second through the journal, so highly concurrent workloads are able to scan, create, rename, unlink, etc at rates of over half a million files/second, even on a typical cheap consumer SSDs....