Disk or Local File Systems XFS Default file system in RHEL Recommended for most use cases Preferred unless there are specific reasons such as compatibility issues or special performance cases ext4 Very familiar in Linux (evolved from ext2 and ext3) Performance is often comparable to XFS Has lower limits for file size and filesystem size compared to XFS --- Network or Client-Server File Systems NFS Used to share files between multiple systems on the same network SMB Used for file sharing with Microsoft Windows systems --- Shared Storage or Shared Disk File Systems GFS2 Provides shared write access across systems in a compute cluster Focuses on stability and reliability Designed to behave similarly to a local file system Commonly used with enterprise applications like: SAS Grid Tibco MQ IBM WebSphere MQ Red Hat Active MQ --- Volume-Managing File Systems Stratis A volume manager built on XFS and LVM Designed to provide features similar to Btrfs and ZFS Simplifies configuration and reduces complexity Implements best practices automatically Consolidates and improves error reporting