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XFS: Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability - Dave Chinner

Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia · talk · Watch on YouTube

Databases & storageLinux & open-source ecosystemsOperating systems & kernels

What it is

Dave Chinner's linux.conf.au 2012 talk on XFS scalability, covering pain points with large numbers of files and complex metadata, and the work to fix XFS metadata performance.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as the definitive explanation of XFS metadata performance fixes and how XFS was developed and made robust on Linux.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2012, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “I wonder if you know about Dave Chinner's talk, which addresses the metadata performance issue.”

    Talk addressing and fixing XFS metadata performance

    justin66, 2014-06 · Recommendation · in “Red Hat Unveils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7”

  2. “Please check this talk from Dave Chinner, where he explains how XFS was developed and ported to Linux”

    How XFS was developed, ported to Linux and made robust

    noigai, 2023-12 · Recommendation · in “In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing”

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Topics: xfs, filesystems, linux kernel, metadata performance, dave chinner

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