XFS
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5recommend
0warn against
Jan 20, 2026first mention
Sep 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Why does the CoW button remove XFS from the list?”
“I'm very happy with my choice today”
switched from OpenZFSon “How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNA…”
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“I'm running XFS on all filesystems (besides /boot and /efi), and they report being full often enough without any crashes/reboots.”
“I have been using XFS since 2005”
“xfs on mdraid is what I use on my homelab NAS”
homelab NAS owneron “Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke…”
Caveats and dissent
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All comments 9
“Why does the CoW button remove XFS from the list?”
“You may not believe it but it is true”
“XFS does, though not visual.”
“I'm very happy with my choice today”
“I'm running XFS on all filesystems (besides /boot and /efi), and they report being full often enough without any crashes/reboots.”
“I have been using XFS since 2005”
“xfs on mdraid is what I use on my homelab NAS”
“every time ZFS on Linux is discussed, someone will invariably bring up XFS.”
“In that regard it's acting more like XFS”