Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > Big? 800kb in compressed form. > Unstable?? Look here: > > "At the D0 experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory we > have a ~150 node cluster of desktop machines all using the SGI-patched > kernel. Every large disk (>40Gb) or disk array in the cluster uses XFS > including 4x640Gb disk servers and several 60-120Gb disks/arrays. > Originally we chose reiserfs as our journalling filesystem, however, > this was a disaster. We need to export these disks via NFS and this > seemed perpetually broken in 2.4 series kernels. We switched to XFS and > have been very happy. The only inconvenience is that it is not included > in the standard kernel. The SGI guys are very prompt in their support of > new kernels, but it is still an extra step which should not be > necessary." > > -- Bjarne
XFS will be in the next stable kernel. XFS is considered big because 800K is too big to fit on a boot floppy along with the rest of the kernel. Besides, 800K *is* big compared to most modules. XFS itself is stable, but the XFS patch changes a lot of the kernel's internal structure. This is one reason why Linus did not want to accept it into the kernel until a later version. Beware of using XFS on your root partition. I have done this, and Mandrake tools do not properly load the XFS module so that you can access your root partition if you build your own kernel. I have reported this many times, and as far as I know it has never been looked into. I can't be the only one who has done this In any case, play it safe and use ext2 or ext3 for your root partition. -- Sincerely, David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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