17 engineers on Hacker News describe using XFS first-hand: 10 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Power outage. Boom, lost half my home dir... I will never try XFS ever again, sorry.”
regret · personal · tharkun__ · 2026-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to xfs because of flexibility.”
endorse · production · giis · 2026-03-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Never again will I trust my data to either of those systems.”
regret · personal · from-nibly · 2024-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used XFS extensively in production workloads because at the time it had a few features I needed that ext4 didn't have.”
endorse · production · bityard · 2024-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do prefer the durability of XFS or ext4 (depending on workload) vs UFS”
endorse · production · salmo · 2021-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to XFS on the very same hardware and did not lose any more data, despite having more power failures.”
endorse · production · theamk · 2019-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it for a long time and it's been rock solid.”
endorse · personal · pmoriarty · 2018-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to XFS from EXT4 because we were running out of inodes under heavy traffic.”
endorse · production · donatj · 2018-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to xfs at some point and got a massive increase in write throughput.”
endorse · production · s_kilk · 2014-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I believe it was because we were not using xfs as our file system, which we have recently moved over to. So far the issue hasn't re-occured.”
endorse · production · bhouston · 2014-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using XFS only (even for /boot) for years and it's been completely reliable.”
endorse · personal · oofabz · 2013-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we put these with XFS (journaled filesystem), on some very busy MySQL servers... went from 10k RPS to a little over 12k RPS”
endorse · production · cd34 · 2011-01-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Personally I usually use either XFS or btrfs as my root filesystem.”
neutral · personal · jchw · 2024-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“forcing me to format my laptop with the more conventional XFS”
neutral · personal · chronid · 2018-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our data really was written into 1GB extents stored as files on an XFS filesystem. ... we switched away from this”
neutral · production · james_cowling · 2016-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to xfs with Ceph for our OpenStack product”
neutral · production · lloydde · 2015-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On production Linux today, I stay with EXT4 or XFS.”
neutral · production · richardkmichael · 2014-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?