On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 1:51 AM Paul Robert Marino <prmari...@gmail.com> wrote: > With NFS always go with EXT4 because NFS isn't compatible with 64bit inodes, so you need to disable a flag with XFS for "inode64" which means on files over 2GB XFS' will need to create multiple inodes instead of 1 at the beginning of the file which hurts it's performance.
Can you provide details on this, or a reference? Even NFSv2 had fixed-size 32-byte/256-bit file handles. NFSv3 (1995) made them variable size and up to 64 bytes / 512 bits. Linux NFS may have taken a while to catch up, but I am pretty sure anything from the past decade will be fine with 64 bit inodes. We have been using XFS over NFS for at least 10 years now, with partitions in the hundreds of terabytes and individual files in the hundreds of gigabytes. No problem. I have no idea why anyone would consider ext4 for any serious application. - Pat
