XFS is one of the only filesystems I've suffered serious catastrophic dataloss with. The other one is of course Btrfs which was and is the worst of the lot.

What was worrying was that the XFS dataloss was due an action totally out of our hands: a power outage at a substation which took out a whole area of the city. The whole datacentre lost power, and the XFS filesystems on some massive storage arrays were completely hosed. Just from power loss. It took days to put it all back from tape backups. XFS has long been known to have problems with unclean shutdowns, but total loss from a power outage is about as bad as it gets.

During my last >15 years of Linux usage, I had exactly the two filesystems you are advocating for here crashing on me: - XFS, long time ago, had a bug that made it lose files silently - BTRFS twice, most recently about a year ago in a super simple setup (no raid or any other fanciness). I wasn't able to recover it, after a while I at least got it to mount as ro and copied the contents away

These were all on Gentoo, so with relatively recent tools and vanilla kernels.

The only filesystems that I never had problems with were ext4 and reiserfs.