Ideas for XFS

Future Directions for XFS

Dave Chinner ideas:

• Improving inode Caching

• Improving Metadata Performance By Reducing Journal Overhead

• Reliable Detection and Repair of Metadata Corruption

Other ideas:

• Splitting project quota support from group quota support
• Assigning project quota to a linux container
• Support discarding of unused sectors
• Superblock flag for when 64-bit inodes are present (see [1])