Timeline for What are the differences between ext4, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS?
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| S Jan 15, 2020 at 10:36 | history | suggested | PaulJ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Added details about shrinking support for XFS and ext4 |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 9:12 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Jan 15, 2020 at 10:36 | |||||
| Feb 2, 2014 at 19:52 | comment | added | Aryeh Leib Taurog | ext4 does not support dynamic inode allocation. If you expect to create many small files, use JFS or make sure to specify a low bytes-per-inode with mke2fs -i. | |
| Mar 15, 2013 at 16:35 | comment | added | vonbrand | ReiserFS is long dead now (got abandoned halfway through for Reiser 4; still had sereve bugs without solution when finally deprecated), Reiser 4 newer saw the light of day (was supposed to handle features that were pointed out time and again are impossible to implement sanely, like multiple links to directories). | |
| Mar 7, 2012 at 8:31 | comment | added | XTL | XFS is also the only fs where, without a massive hardware failure, I've had data loss. I have no idea how they broke it so badly, since in IRIX it always works perfectly. | |
| Dec 3, 2011 at 19:09 | comment | added | hhaamu | re: XFS data loss. You should be fine if you turn off write caching on your disk drives. (Applies to all file systems!) | |
| S Jun 8, 2011 at 18:28 | history | suggested | barrymac | CC BY-SA 3.0 | reiser4 is quite different and should be seperated from previous reiserfs |
| Jun 8, 2011 at 17:07 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jun 8, 2011 at 16:53 | comment | added | Ali Lown | I have been using XFS as my primary data partition form on both a desktop and laptop for the past year without issue. No UPS, and I have had enough kernel panics to have not shut it down safely quite a few times. Note: I do use ext4 for the root file system though. | |
| S Jun 8, 2011 at 16:11 | history | suggested | barrymac | CC BY-SA 3.0 | I added a con for XFS which I experience myself, terrible data loss dues to power cut. I read only after the event why this happened |
| Jun 8, 2011 at 15:55 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 8, 2011 at 1:23 | comment | added | OneOfOne | @Arrowmaster I can confirm this from personal experience | |
| Mar 19, 2011 at 18:38 | comment | added | Arrowmaster | I've never used XFS but I've heard many reports of dataloss due to power failures and that a UPS is extremely recommended if you are going to use XFS. | |
| Aug 11, 2010 at 20:43 | vote | accept | Am1rr3zA | ||
| Aug 11, 2010 at 19:36 | history | answered | wzzrd | CC BY-SA 2.5 |