XFS - Wikipedia

XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI) in 1993.[7] It was the default file system in SGI's IRIX operating system starting with its version 5.3. XFS was ported to the Linux kernel in 2001; as of June 2014, XFS is supported by most Linux distributions; Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses it as its default file system. XFS excels in the execution of p

[meech]

“ Gentoo Linux was the first Linux distribution to introduce an option for XFS to be used as the default filesystem in mid-2002.”

[IanLewis]

XFS is a high-performance journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, originally for their IRIX operating system and later ported to Linux kernel. XFS is particularly proficient at handling large files and at offering smooth data transfers.

[rawwell]

"XFS makes use of lazy evaluation techniques for file allocation. When a file is written to the buffer cache, rather than allocating extents for the data, XFS simply reserves the appropriate number of file system blocks for the data held in memory. The actual block allocation occurs only when the da