On 12/09/16 07:20 AM, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
Would you not say that xfs is preferred over ext4? In benchmarks and
recovery exercises, it appears to come out ahead for performance and
recovery.
The negative aspect of deploying xfs is that once the partition size
is set, you cannot add or reduce it's size without a reformat of that
partition.
I am using it on a workstation for /boot, / and /var. My next upgrade
will include /home.
That's a different discussion entirely. Since I'm considering switching
from Ext4, the question is which is the best option. XFS has its
devotees and I even used it for a while (I also used ReiserFS for a
while) before returning to the Ext fold.
When looking for a replacement, I want a file system that is generally
superior to what I am using now. XFS offers good performance but lacks
other modern features like error checking and correction. I wouldn't
rate it as clearly superior to Ext4.
