XFS: Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability - Dave Chinner
Channel: Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
Date: 2012-01-20

Filesystems are being asked to scale to larger configurations every week. They need to store more files, larger amounts of data and be able to index that data more efficiently than ever. XFS has had a number of pain points for managing large numbers of files and complex metadata structures that limit it's ability to scale out to the capabilities of it's underlying structures.