Dave Chinner looks at the history of XFS, its current status, and where the filesystem may be heading (2015)

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https://lwn.net/Articles/638546/

 

In a thought-provoking—and characteristically amusing—talk at the 2015 Vault conference, Dave Chinner looked at the history of XFS, its current status, and where the filesystem may be heading. In keeping with the title of the talk (shared by this article), he sees parallels in what drove the original development of XFS and what will be driving new filesystems. Chinner's vision of the future for today's filesystems, and not just of XFS, may be a bit surprising or controversial—possibly both.

( The last section on future of XFS is most interesting ).