XFS was designed for use by the company that made these [1] bad boys. They did it and a clustered variant. Their systems worked on both large files for media and applications where lots of small data had to be processed in parallel (or just faster). So, it was general purpose albeit tilted for the big stuff a bit. I never benchmarked it, though, so I won't speculate about what's better for small files.
"With the advance in SSD, HDD will be mainly used for big files, so XFS may yet end up dominating."
Good point. We're already seeing that with all the videos and games. So, there might be a resurgence of XFS use. I doubt it will dominate, though, unless it stays the default in enough distro's.
"With the advance in SSD, HDD will be mainly used for big files, so XFS may yet end up dominating."
Good point. We're already seeing that with all the videos and games. So, there might be a resurgence of XFS use. I doubt it will dominate, though, unless it stays the default in enough distro's.
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=SGI+Origin&ia=images