XFS: the big storage file system for Linux
Christoph Hellwig · ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE · 2009
XFS is a file system that was designed from day one computer systems with large numbers of CPUs and large disk arrays. It focuses on supporting large files and good streaming I/O performance. It also have some interesting administrative features not supported by other Linux file systems. This article gives some background information on why XFS was created and how it differs from the fmiliar Linux systems. You may discover that XFS is just what your project needs instead of making do with the default Linux file system,