Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-17 Thread Warly
Claudio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Claudio wrote on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:04:14PM +0200 : quota DOES NOT work on ext3 filesystem at the moment. I reported this problem since 9.0 beta 1... If you want to use quote, you MUST use XFS! That is incorrect. It does work on ext3 and has worked

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach David Walluck am 2002-10-13 um 14:22:06 -0400 : 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. Is it really a problem of using XFS for /?

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-17 Thread David Walluck
Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach David Walluck am 2002-10-13 um 14:22:06 -0400 : 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. Is it really a

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-16 Thread John Allen
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 23:01, Todd Lyons wrote: Claudio wrote on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:04:14PM +0200 : quota DOES NOT work on ext3 filesystem at the moment. I reported this problem since 9.0 beta 1... If you want to use quote, you MUST use XFS! That is incorrect. It does work on

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-16 Thread Claudio
Claudio wrote on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:04:14PM +0200 : quota DOES NOT work on ext3 filesystem at the moment. I reported this problem since 9.0 beta 1... If you want to use quote, you MUST use XFS! That is incorrect. It does work on ext3 and has worked since beta 1. The problem is that

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-16 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Claudio wrote: To be exact, even root cannot see the right quota for a user on ext3 filesystem. The files aquota.* are never up-to-date if root does not run quotacheck. The only thing that really suggest you are out of quota is the message disk quota exceeded while

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-15 Thread Todd Lyons
Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy wrote on Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:00:19PM +0200 : El Dom 13 Oct 2002 20:22, David Walluck escribi?: 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

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-15 Thread Todd Lyons
Claudio wrote on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:04:14PM +0200 : quota DOES NOT work on ext3 filesystem at the moment. I reported this problem since 9.0 beta 1... If you want to use quote, you MUST use XFS! That is incorrect. It does work on ext3 and has worked since beta 1. The problem is that it

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-15 Thread David Walluck
Todd Lyons wrote: Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy wrote on Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:00:19PM +0200 : El Dom 13 Oct 2002 20:22, David Walluck escribi?: 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

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-14 Thread danny
On 13 Oct 2002, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: Big? 800kb in compressed form. For a patch, that looks horribly big to me. And look at the code, it is not simply an addon module. It puts all sorts of things in the kernel. Unstable?? Look here: Well, I had some fs corruption with XFS when pluggin the

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-13 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
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

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-13 Thread David Walluck
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

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-13 Thread Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy
El Dom 13 Oct 2002 20:22, David Walluck escribió: 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 been using XFS in the root partition

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-13 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Why is XFS the only journaling FS that is not included in the main 2.4 tree, considering that Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, Slackware, and JB Linux all have support for XFS? -- Bjarne On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 19:52, Wes Kurdziolek wrote: XFS will most likely not be integrated into the 2.4 tree. On

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-13 Thread Wes Kurdziolek
For one, the XFS patches are rather non-invasive. Folks have argued on lkml for a long time that Linus doesn't integrate patches that are too invasive when quite the opposite is true -- he'd rather integrate invasive stuff to make patching the kernel up w/ less-invasive patches less difficult.

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-13 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Claudio wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: 3)Quotas might work better in XFS, but I haven't tested that enough ... (ie from a windows box via samba). quota DOES NOT work on ext3 filesystem at the moment. I reported this problem since 9.0 beta 1...

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-13 Thread Danny Tholen
On Sunday 13 October 2002 10:16, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: Why is XFS the only journaling FS that is not included in the main 2.4 tree, considering that Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, Slackware, and JB Linux all have support for XFS? Because, simply, XFS is a horrible big complex patch that possibly

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-13 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Danny Tholen wrote: On Sunday 13 October 2002 10:16, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: Why is XFS the only journaling FS that is not included in the main 2.4 tree, considering that Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, Slackware, and JB Linux all have support for XFS? Because, simply, XFS is

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-12 Thread Buchan Milne
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

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-12 Thread Danny Tholen
On Saturday 12 October 2002 07:44, Brent Hasty wrote: so how about ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer? and why? I prefer ext3 because current XFS doesn't like preemptive kernel (available on mdk club now). Perhaps XFS from cvs is better. Danny

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-12 Thread Claudio
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: 3)Quotas might work better in XFS, but I haven't tested that enough ... (ie from a windows box via samba). quota DOES NOT work on ext3 filesystem at the moment. I reported this problem since 9.0 beta 1... If you want to use quote, you MUST use XFS!

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-12 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
Does anybody know if XFS has been included in 2.4.20-pre or 2.4.20-pre-ac ? Bjarne On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 18:04, Claudio wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: 3)Quotas might work better in XFS, but I haven't tested that enough ... (ie from a windows box via samba). quota

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-12 Thread Wes Kurdziolek
XFS will most likely not be integrated into the 2.4 tree. On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 12:35, Bjarne Thomsen wrote: Does anybody know if XFS has been included in 2.4.20-pre or 2.4.20-pre-ac ? Bjarne On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 18:04, Claudio wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote:

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-12 Thread Wes Kurdziolek
I thought quotas *did* work, but users couldn't get quota reports, only root. On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 12:04, Claudio wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: 3)Quotas might work better in XFS, but I haven't tested that enough ... (ie from a windows box via samba). quota DOES NOT

Re: [Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-12 Thread Michael Holt
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,

[Cooker] ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer?

2002-10-11 Thread Brent Hasty
so how about ext3 vs XFS wich would you prefer? and why? The advantages vs. disadvantages?