Why do some filesystems perform better at storing large files?
I read about the XFS filesystem and found that it is good at storing large files. Why are some filesystems (XFS) good at storing large files and others (ext4/ext3) are not? Is it because of the physical architecture of XFS?
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I read about the XFS filesystem and found that it is good at storing large files. Why are some filesystems (XFS) good at storing large files and others (ext4/ext3) are not? Is it because of the physical architecture of XFS?
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I read about the XFS filesystem and found that it is good at storing large files. Why are some filesystems (XFS) good at storing large files and others (ext4/ext3) are not? Is it because of the physical architecture of XFS?
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I read about the XFS filesystem and found that it is good at storing large files. Why are some filesystems (XFS) good at storing large files and others (ext4/ext3) are not? Is it because of the physical architecture of XFS?
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The reason is the design of XFS. If you dig in to its history, you will see SGI was famous for workstations designed for audio and video editing. SGI created XFS to handle huge files (xxx MB or more) very well. They added the use of extents (with usual size of around 1MB) to improve good performance in handling big files.
You can find more details here
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The reason is the design of XFS. If you dig in to its history, you will see SGI was famous for workstations designed for audio and video editing. SGI created XFS to handle huge files (xxx MB or more) very well. They added the use of extents (with usual size of around 1MB) to improve good performance in handling big files.
You can find more details here
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can you tell me in more details with some links so that I could understand.
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The reason is the design of XFS. If you dig in to its history, you will see SGI was famous for workstations designed for audio and video editing. SGI created XFS to handle huge files (xxx MB or more) very well. They added the use of extents (with usual size of around 1MB) to improve good performance in handling big files.
You can find more details here
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can you tell me in more details with some links so that I could understand.
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@user3847894, please check updated answer
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The reason is the design of XFS. If you dig in to its history, you will see SGI was famous for workstations designed for audio and video editing. SGI created XFS to handle huge files (xxx MB or more) very well. They added the use of extents (with usual size of around 1MB) to improve good performance in handling big files.
You can find more details here
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The reason is the design of XFS. If you dig in to its history, you will see SGI was famous for workstations designed for audio and video editing. SGI created XFS to handle huge files (xxx MB or more) very well. They added the use of extents (with usual size of around 1MB) to improve good performance in handling big files.
You can find more details here
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@user3847894, please check updated answer
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can you tell me in more details with some links so that I could understand.
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@user3847894, please check updated answer
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can you tell me in more details with some links so that I could understand.
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can you tell me in more details with some links so that I could understand.
– user3847894
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@user3847894, please check updated answer
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@user3847894, please check updated answer
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