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XFS is rock solid and still has active development going on, so why not.

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But are there benefits over ext4 and BTRFS these days?

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From the top of my head, compared to ext4: RAM use and the ability to shrink an FS if necessary. Oh, also I’ve used an EXT FS driver on a Windows host, but I’ve never seen one for XFS.

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Just to clarify, the previous comment asked about benefits of XFS over ext4. But I completely agree with your reasons for choosing ext4.

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Rock solid may be a stretch. They still suffer from outrageous metadata bugs even to this day when used in busy file systems.

That bug alone has been open for over a decade. Development focus of the people who understand and want to fix those things have shifted to other filesystems like ext4 and ZFS.

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Main reason I stopped using it ten years ago.

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