#Extfs vs xfs software license#

Create by Sun Microsystems for Solaris and later for FreeBSD, then, for Linux (2008). Great features like unlimited snapshots, clones, pool bases storage, etc.

ZFS – Have a remarkable good performance on Linux.

Has default on almost any distro installation. Is a good choice for desktop use, even for server environment in some cases.

#Extfs vs xfs software license#

It’s under a free software license GNU GPL. Also hard to have data corrupt due to a power fail, system crash or hardware fail. Uses less CPU resources than other filesystems. Is supported by most Linux distributions, some of which use it as the default file system (like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7+). Created by SGI in 1993 ( the most robust filesystem – more than 20 years old). Hard to to have data corrupt due to a power fail, system crash or hardware fail. XFS – Is best choice for server and data storage environment.My Conclusions and thoughts ( by preference order): Some file systems have been designed to be used for specific applications.

Each one has different structure and logic, properties of speed, flexibility, security, size and more. There are many different kinds of file systems. The structure and logic rules used to manage the groups of information and their names is called a “file system”. Taking its name from the way paper-based information systems are named, each group of data is called a “file”. By separating the data into pieces and giving each piece a name, the information is easily isolated and identified. Without a file system, information placed in a storage medium would be one large body of data with no way to tell where one piece of information stops and the next begins. In computing, a file system (or filesystem) is used to control how data is stored and retrieved.