[Gluster-users] ZFS with SSD ZIL vs XFS

Gandalf Corvotempesta gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 17:59:33 UTC 2017


2017-10-10 18:27 GMT+02:00 Jeff Darcy <jeff at pl.atyp.us>:
> Probably not.  If there is, it would probably favor XFS.  The developers
> at Red Hat use XFS almost exclusively.  We at Facebook have a mix, but
> XFS is (I think) the most common.  Whatever the developers use tends to
> become "the way local filesystems work" and code is written based on
> that profile, so even without intention that tends to get a bit of a
> boost.  To the extent that ZFS makes different tradeoffs - e.g. using
> lots more memory, very different disk access patterns - it's probably
> going to have a bit more of an "impedance mismatch" with the choices
> Gluster itself has made.

Ok, so XFS is the way to go :)


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