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0 pointsck211y ago0 comments

I'll wait for more benchmarks to be certain but this database test of the 3.10 kernel (which 7 uses) of XFS vs EXT4 is not promising:

http://openbenchmarking.org/prospect/1305166-UT-FILESYSTE20/...

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jerven11y ago

A 160 GB disk is not a real comparison for enterprises. XFS really starts to perform better on disks 1Tb as well as 8 cores and above. EXT4 really starts to creak when moving to filesystems that are 16TB and above. Something that is going to be common in the 7 years that Cent-OS 7 is around.

Of course with the amount of backports of patches that any RedHat kernel has the comparison to mainline version numbers is almost useless :(

For my workload the performance difference is 15% better for XFS than EXT4 on the same 3Tb of SSD with the same workload.

Alupis11y ago

RHEL pretty much is the standard for enterprise-y distros. I'm pretty confident they weighed the XFS decision very heavily, and in the end chose it for good reason.

In fact, here's an article on the SUSE blog from a year ago discussing why XFS is a great choice for enterprise:

https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/xfs-the-file-...

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