XFS
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The XFS filesystem is a high-performance journaling filesystem. It is ACL (POSIX) compliant for use with Linux.
Installation
Kernel
KERNEL Enable XFS support (CONFIG_XFS_FS:)
File systems ---> <*> XFS filesystem support
Optional:
KERNEL Enable optional XFS features
File systems ---> [*] XFS Quota support [*] XFS POSIX ACL support [*] XFS Realtime subvolume support [ ] XFS Verbose Warnings [ ] XFS Debugging support
Emerge
The sys-fs/xfsprogs package is needed for XFS userspace utilities:
root #
emerge --ask sys-fs/xfsprogs
Usage
Mount XFS filesystems with the mount command.
Removal
To schedule removal at the next run:
root #
emerge --ask --depclean --verbose sys-fs/xfsprogs
See also
- FAT — originally created for use with MS-DOS (and later pre-NT Microsoft Windows)
- Ext4 — an open source disk filesystem and most recent version of the extended series of filesystems.
- Btrfs — a copy-on-write (CoW) filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair, and easy administration.