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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.
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.
ext3/4
ext3/4 are widely used Linux file systems that compete with XFS.
ext3
ext3 is a widely used Linux file system that competes with XFS as a general-purpose file system, though older.
GPFS
GPFS (now IBM Spectrum Scale) is a high-performance clustered file system that competes with XFS in enterprise environments.
ZFS
ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager that competes with XFS, offering advanced features like data integrity and snapshots.
Lustre
Lustre is a parallel distributed file system, generally for large scale cluster computing, that competes with XFS in high-performance computing environments.
EXT
Older versions of EXT such as ext2 are competitors.
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.
XFS Complementary Technologies
LVM
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) can be used with XFS to provide flexible storage management, such as resizing and snapshotting.
NFS
Network File System (NFS) is a protocol that allows XFS file systems to be shared over a network.
CIFS
Common Internet File System (CIFS) allows XFS file systems to be shared with Windows clients.
Which job functions commonly mention XFS?
Site Reliability Engineer
32 Site Reliability Engineer jobs mention XFS
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DevOps Engineer
48 DevOps Engineer jobs mention XFS
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Systems Engineer
109 Systems Engineer jobs mention XFS
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Administrator
279 Administrator jobs mention XFS
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Engineer
407 Engineer jobs mention XFS
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