ZFS vs XFS

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Published on 2009-04-30T09:03:48Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 12:41 UTC
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We're considering building a ~16TB storage server. At the moment, we're considering both ZFS and XFS as filesystem. What are the advantages, disadvantages? What do we have to look for? Is there a third, better option?

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