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I had tried xfs recently and I hated it. I have a thin laptop which would just lose power if I grabbed it wrong and very quickly my xfs partition got corrupted and I was unable to fix it. So, I had to re-install my os, and went back to ext4. Which even with the same power offs, never an issue since several months. This is largely anecdotal. But have had a coworker with the same issue too...

I also had issues with a vms using xfs too.

But, I do use xfs on ssd raids(in our servers, being used for testing) and never had an issue there.



We lost an entire openstack host due to an xfs glitch last year. It needed rebuilding from scratch.




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