High performance

XFS provides high performance by effectively managing disk space.

Within the allocation groups, B+ trees manage free space and inodes. The effectiveness and scalability of XFS are considerably enhanced by the usage of B+ trees. XFS manages allocation in a delayed manner by dividing the allocation procedure into two steps. Pending transactions are kept in the RAM and the necessary amount of space is set aside. The precise location (in filesystem blocks) of the data’s storage is still left up to XFS. This choice is postponed until the very last second. If it is outdated when XFS selects where to save it, certain short-lived temporary data may never reach the disk. XFS improves write performance and lessens filesystem fragmentation in this way. Data loss after a crash during a write operation is likely to be more severe in a delayed-allocation filesystem than in other filesystems.

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