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What is XFS?

XFS is a high-performance journaling file system originally developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). It is particularly strong at handling large files and file systems, parallel I/O, and sustained bandwidth, making it suitable for demanding applications such as video streaming, scientific computing, and large databases. XFS is commonly used in Linux environments.

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What other technologies are related to XFS?

XFS Competitor Technologies

ext4

ext4 is a widely used Linux file system that competes with XFS as a general-purpose file system.

mentioned alongside XFS in 62% (296) of relevant job posts

ext3/4

ext3/4 are widely used Linux file systems that compete with XFS.

mentioned alongside XFS in 52% (94) of relevant job posts

ext3

ext3 is a widely used Linux file system that competes with XFS as a general-purpose file system, though older.

mentioned alongside XFS in 48% (93) of relevant job posts

GPFS

GPFS (now IBM Spectrum Scale) is a high-performance clustered file system that competes with XFS in enterprise environments.

mentioned alongside XFS in 12% (298) of relevant job posts

ZFS

ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager that competes with XFS, offering advanced features like data integrity and snapshots.

mentioned alongside XFS in 9% (275) of relevant job posts

Lustre

Lustre is a parallel distributed file system, generally for large scale cluster computing, that competes with XFS in high-performance computing environments.

mentioned alongside XFS in 8% (270) of relevant job posts

EXT

Older versions of EXT such as ext2 are competitors.

mentioned alongside XFS in 20% (53) of relevant job posts

btrfs

Btrfs is a modern copy-on-write file system for Linux that competes with XFS, offering features like snapshots, checksumming, and built-in RAID support.

mentioned alongside XFS in 15% (52) of relevant job posts