The XFS filesystem could gain exciting new features, and more specifically, autonomous self-healing capabilities in the upcoming Linux kernel 7.0 cycle, following a pull request submitted by XFS maintainer Darrick J. Wong.
The proposal, called “xfs: autonomous self-healing of filesystems,” aims for the 7.0 merge window. It brings a new system to report filesystem problems in real time and lets userspace programs fix them automatically. This patchset uses new VFS error-reporting tools from Amutable’s CTO Christian Brauner, which are also planned for Linux kernel 7.0.
The main change adds a kernel feature that sends out health events when XFS finds problems like metadata corruption, file I/O errors, media check failures, or big changes such as shutdowns and unmounts.
I’m currently in a committed relationship with my husband btrfs, but this sounds really interesting :3
While BTRFS has replaced my long standing affection for EXT4, I also have use for ZFS and XFS.
I use XFS on servers where there is already a hardware raid configured and ZFS where I set up my own mirrors.
If the the one server with XFS I maintain would need a complete reinstall, I am not sure if I would go to ZFS with software raid instead of XFS. I am interested in what you would choose for a raid with 24 harddisks.