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Serious question: why would anyone opt for XFS these days? I remember reading about it being faster/more efficient with small files, but is that still valid?
I use XFS on partitions where I need to implement project quotas.
Why not zfs?
I have no experience with ZFS and didn't know it supported project quotas too. I found out about XFS from an LPIC book where it said that XFS, unlike other filesystems, also supported project quotas (this was about 10 years ago). It's been working fine for me the past few years, so I've never looked for alternatives. Now I'm curious.
Fairly sure zfs has been able to do dataset quotas for about 20 years, totally worth looking into