XFS is a default filesystem in a production system? Really?

XFS was dead to me 20 years ago. The only time I ever actually verifiably lost data to a system crash was on XFS. I had actual zero length files with XFS after a crash. Lost actual data. But the file system was in totally happy consistent metadata state. Never ever would I ever consider that filesystem ever again.

The ominous "reisserfs" everyone complained about? Never lost a single byte of data to it even when I pulled the plug in the middle of a write operation to test it. No issues with ext4, no experience with btrfs.

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ghaff 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You may not believe it but it is true: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...

I vaguely know some of the backstory of moving off ext4 (as default). As I understood it at the time, it was less focused on some of the larger systems Red Hat was interested in.

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pram 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The main problem with ReiserFS is Reiser killed his wife so it is unmaintained.

	▲	ghaff 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is that. I think ReiserSF used to be the default that SUSE used. These days, it seems to be btrfs for root and XFS for everything else.