So a couple people (drag, I think?) labeled XFS as particularly "robust" and fast and, presumably, awesome. OK. This is not an argument, this is a question: if it's more robust than ext4, why are we ...

I'm not sure if XFS or JFS is up to the task. The FS will have mostly files >100MB, and I was counting on the EXT4 extents (larger virtual block size) to improve hardware performance (fewer seeks). I ...

The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems. Among the improvements are an ...