> > I've seen many people asking for XFS in the distro.
> >
> > Please could you sum up the reasons why you think it's needed, in
> > particular in comparison with reiserfs.
> >
> > Any reasons (technical, ethical, marketal, ethereal...)
> > are welcome,
> > provided they are expressed in a short and efficient way.
>
> a) ReiserFS is a good journaling FS, specially for a
> home box or SOHO
> server, but when it comes to (big) database serving, XFS has
> the track record
> of being *It*.
>
> b) XFS has the mental marketshare among the journaling
> FSs...pretty
> damn important to convince some buzzword-addicted PHBs.
>
> c) XFS is the oldest journaling FS there is....nothing
> has proved its
> worth better than it has (it's unproven in linux, yes...but
> the design behind
> it has been proven for ages). The actual code may be immature
> in linux, but it
> will mature much faster than ReiserFS did (at least it should).
>
> d) Choice :)
e) Acceptance and preference. XFS is used by
hundreds/thousands(/millions?) of system administrators
already. They're comfortable with it. They know it.
They live by it. They get their paychecks because of it.
They don't want something else, they want things their
way, the old fashioned way. They may not be able to
choose which server they're buying ("Due to budget
constraints, we can't afford the SGI server, but we'll
buy you an Intel box"), but they can control the OS and
the filesystem. Since they can't run Irix on the server,
at least they could run Mandrake and use the same
filesystem as the rest of their SGI servers. They really
don't want something new and untested, they want the
years of real-world history. XFS has that. Reiser, as
good as it may be, doesn't have that.
Don Head
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