Feature changed by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #307617, revision 5 Title: Make XFS the Default Filesystem openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Charles Wright (asnrcw) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Or at least allow the user to choose which filesystem to use during the install process. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: XFS is stable, has good performance and doesn't keep your hard drive awake with journaling. Discussion: #1: Stephen Kellat (skellat) (2009-09-05 18:10:27) How is this not already provided for in the installer's partition editor? If memory serves I can use XFS when I am partitioning during a DVD-based install. #2: Robert Davies (robopensuse) (2009-11-17 18:12:07) XFS does not have the data reliability enhancements mde to ext3/ext4 and ext4 is faster over all benchmark tests I come across. ext4 has more active developers, with XFS a small pool. In 11.2 I actually did format some XFS filessystems, for storing large file data, which I wanted to share with older version Linux, so this feature is alraedy implemented. Do custom partition (for experts), size the disks, then you have filesystem format & fstab option form. + #3: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-12-05 14:18:46) (reply to #2) + Ext* does not have the fast quota bulkstat and atomic quota-keeping + that XFS does. + #4: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-12-05 14:22:02) + XFS does come to show age when dealing with a lots of metadata updates + (prime example: extracting kernel source). + -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307617