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### Pros
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- Fast, XFS was originally designed with speed and extreme scalability in mind.
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- XFS was originally designed with speed and extreme scalability in mind.
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- Reliable, XFS makes use of several technologies to prevent data corruption.
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- Resistant to fragmentation due to its extent-based nature and delayed allocation strategy.
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- Can be as fast or faster than XFS in some scenarios.
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- Very common, allowing easy access to plenty of resources.
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- Reliable. EXT4 has a proven track record of being very reliable.
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- Able to grow or shrink.
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- Shrinking is only supported offline and requires the filesystem to be unmounted.
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- Built on an old code base.
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- Lacks many of the advanced features other filesystems offer.
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- Designed with flash friendliness in mind.
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- Transparent compression used to reduce disk writes (space savings not currently usable by the user).
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- Faster than other filesystems like EXT4.
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- Better wear leveling, which further prolongs the life of NAND flash.
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