Comment by jerven

2004 is not current for XFS, that is a decade ago! However, disks finishing writes and not lying about having done it is a critical need for all FS. For some like ext3 you would notice it less as it was flush happy.

XFS is becoming the sane default filesystem for servers as it allocates nodes more consistently than the other current mainstream linux options on multidisk systems. Basically small servers now have more disk space and performance than the large systems of 2004. So XFS stayed put in where it starts to make sense, but systems grew to meet its sweetspot much often.