Didar Hossain wrote: > I have been using XFS for data on dual HDD (RAID1->LVM->LUKS->XFS) on > Debian Stretch for more than a year, haven't experienced issues yet. OS is > on Ext4 on SDD. I use Urbackup (www.urbackup.org) to backup multiple > Windows machines to this box as well as Samba for simple shares. > > I stayed away from Btrfs after hearing a lot of negative stories. ZFS on > FreeBSD is probably better if you need that kind of reliability. I am a > one man show currently managing the tech, so I don't really have that kind > of mental bandwidth to learn and setup FreeBSD+ZFS right now. But, you may > explore that path if you have the time.
Exactly and we've been running ~10 TBs of disks in RAID1 or RAID5 for long enough on XFS on multiple machines and setups. I think XFS is mature enough. If you are happy use it - remember the rule: "do not touch a running system"? Better look in advantages/disadvantages to make your decision. For example XFS could not shrink AFAIR. Never had to do so - but had to shrink ext4 and was happy to have ext4 there. It might have changed on XFS side though I do not believe. Tuning the systems is also a thing to consider if performance or reliability is in focus. regards