XFS

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• XFS default filesystem for RHEL 7.0 in 2014.
• XFS now supports shared copy-on-write data extents in RHEL 8.0

• Shrinking with lvreduce is not supported on a GFS2 or XFS file system

Related terms

• speculative preallocation

See also

• File systems: ext4, XFS, ZFS, btrfs, wipefs, findfs, HDFS, overlay, aufs, virt-filesystems, Windows: (FAT, NTFS, ReFS), GPFS, squashfs, Ecryptfs, Encfs, FUSE, VMFS, Comparison of distributed file systems, Userspace filesystem, Resize filesystem size
• XFS, attr, xfs_growfs, xfs_info, mkfs.xfs