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when to choose EXT4 over XFS - ext4 is still king for home use or older systems
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choosing ext4 vs xfs
https://access.redhat.com/articles/3129891#choosing-a-local-file-system-6
Another way to characterize this is that the Ext4 file system variants tend to perform better on systems that have limited I/O capability. Ext3 and Ext4 perform better on limited bandwidth (< 200MB/s) and up to ~1,000 IOPS capability. For anything with higher capability, XFS tends to be faster. XFS also consumes about twice the CPU-per-metadata operation compared to Ext3 and Ext4, so if you have a CPU-bound workload with little concurrency, then the Ext3 or Ext4 variants will be faster. In general, Ext3 or Ext4 is better if an application uses a single read/write thread and small files, while XFS shines when an application uses multiple read/write threads and bigger files.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/managing_file_systems/overview-of-available-file-systems_managing-file-systems
ext4 is better when:
Single-threaded I/O
Limited I/O capability (under 1000 IOPS)
Limited bandwidth (under 200MB/s)
CPU-bound workload
Support for offline shrinking
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