Which file system to use for the OS? Quite simply, don't use XFS - use EXT (or whatever). Installing a minimal ubuntu server took absolute ages (hours) over XFS on RAID0 and RAID1.
Think about it - XFS *rocks* at large files but its weak spot is tiny files - what does an installation involve? Lots of small files.
Changing it to EXT4 and re-installing reduces it from hours to mere minutes (20 or so - I didn't time).
I will be using XFS for storing the virtual machines one though - for sure. Just not the OS.
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