On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Buchan Milne uttered these words of wisdom: >On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: > >> so how about ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer? >> and why? >> >> The advantages vs. disadvantages? >> > >That's something I would also want to hear opinions on ... > >Since we got ACL support for ext3, they are mostly similar in features, >except: >1)Intermezzo doens't work with XFS yet, but then again I haven't managed >to compile intersync ... >2)XFS has xfsdump, which keeps all metadata, including ACLs. But, since >amanda can't span tapes, this doesn't really help us, since our tapes are >smaller than the partitions we need ... >3)Quotas might work better in XFS, but I haven't tested that enough ... >(ie from a windows box via samba). > >I have seen the odd file corruption in XFS when the power dies, usually >the kdmrc gets mangled if yuo have root or /usr on XFS and the power dies, >but if you have a UPS (which we do on our servers, but not on my home >machine), it shouldn't be a problem. > >I don't think there is much between them performance-wise. > >Buchan
This looks more like a personal message, but since it's on cooker, I'll go ahead and add a comment. I've been using XFS since it became available in Mandrake and I've never been happier! I haven't tried ext3 (which maybe invalidates my opinion), but I know that SGI has been around for years and their product has had the time to mature. In other words, I've not had any problems with it and I have it on all partitions except /boot on all my linux boxes (4 including my laptop). Mike -- Michael Holt Banning, CA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrake.com ============================================================<
