10 Oct
2016
10 Oct
'16
12:56 p.m.
On 10/10/2016 09:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 11:25 -0400, Alex wrote:
I suppose I'm most familiar with ext4, although I understand xfs is the default filesystem during install now.
Where did you read that? AFAIK the default continues to be ext4.
Alex is thinking of RHEL/CentOS 7, whose default is XFS. ext4 is probably a better option for a filesystem with a large number of small files. XFS continues to be slower for metadata operations.