XFS is a 64-bit file system and, at least in theory, can handle file systems as large as 8 exabytes. This is incredibly large. One exabyte equals one million terabytes.

Right from the start we see the XFS file system really taking off and leaving EXT3 and ZFS way behind in transfer speeds. In some cases XFS is able to double the speed of the other two file systems.

What are the advantages of those other filesystems, and when should you choose them instead? Why the Ext4 ...

My brother brought his machine to me which I'd previously set up with Debian, and which he's happily using, even though he's not really a "Linux geek" or ...

Still, I'm confident that SGI knows what they're doing ;.).<P>Especially if you have a tendency to break stuff you'd love a journaling file system (XFS, ReiserFS, ext3 or JFS) -- no fsck when your ...

While exploring improvements around different file system journaling mechanisms and settings in ext4, the engineers found suggestions about the XFS file system offering more advanced journaling ...

For example, the XFS file system is the default one used by Redhat Enterprise and supports extended attributes, but would no longer be supported. Dropbox system requirements have been updated.

SGI CXFS adds to XFS the capability of sharing the file system and storage directly with other SGI servers and with other operating systems, including Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, 64-bit support ...

Through a number of enhancements, the kernel’s support for the XFS file system has been streamlined as well. The changelog notes that in a test of an 8-way SMP machine, ...