[Twirrim]

> Tested by time (I'm the OP).

This is so important, and so often overlooked.

The lure of "ohhh shiny!" is prevalent in tech. I love to use bleeding edge stuff, play with new toys etc, but that is purely for home and personal stuff. Never for work.

I want my work life to be utterly boring. Nothing breaking. Everything behaving exactly as expected. I will happily trade a bit of performance and a lack of some shiny features for a system or component that works reliably. The less time I have to spend fighting stuff the more time I can spend tuning, automating or improving what I do have to look after.

XFS performs well. It's reliable, reasonably fast (they trade some speed for durability/reliability), and just works