Origin and Evolution of XFS Originally developed by SGI in the 1990s, XFS was open sourced and integrated into the Linux kernel. Over the years, it has undergone significant development and ...

How filesystems differ Overall, the trade-offs between Ext4, Btrfs, and XFS highlight the balancing act between performance, data integrity, and metadata handling.

XFS can handle variable block sizes, sparse files, and snapshots. 2. Extent-based allocation uses larger continuous blocks for more efficient storage and access. Extents are referenced via a B+ tree.