THE VIDEO SHELF · xfs filesystem scalability
XFS: Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability - Dave Chinner
Dave Chinner's linux.conf.au 2012 talk on XFS scalability, covering pain points with large numbers of files and complex metadata, and the work to fix XFS metadata performance.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as the definitive explanation of XFS metadata performance fixes and how XFS was developed and made robust on Linux.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
- Topic
- xfs filesystem scalability
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I wonder if you know about Dave Chinner's talk, which addresses the metadata performance issue. (they fixed it) [VIDEO]
justin66 on Hacker News · 2014-06
In Red Hat Unveils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7> XFS is probably the best bet on Linux Yes, agree. However, I also lost files on it (had files overwritten with 0s, as other people already commented here). Also, it's your best bet of you don't need the extra features provided by ZFS. Thanks …
noigai on Hacker News · 2023-12
In In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing
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