XFS features
Highly Scalable 64-bit file system:
- scalable from very small to ludicrous (up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes)
- algorithms designed for performance of very large systems
- 14 terabyte file systems and 12 terabyte files
Performance of XFS has achieved over 7 GBytes/sec (single file).
Asynchronous Log (no fsck needed)
- XFS designed around Transaction/Log
- restarts after crashes in less than 1 second