[KAFKA-3725] Update documentation with regards to XFS

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0.1
• Assignee: Todd Palino
• Reporter: Ismael Juma
• Created: 18/May/16 08:32
• Updated: 11/Jul/16 08:02
• Resolved: 11/Jul/16 08:02

Description

Our documentation currently states that only Ext4 has been tried (by LinkedIn):

"Ext4 may or may not be the best filesystem for Kafka. Filesystems like XFS supposedly handle locking during fsync better. We have only tried Ext4, though."
http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#ext4

I think this is no longer true, so we should update the documentation.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1605