Cory Petkovsek wrote:

> As for xfs, I probably wouldn't use it on a critical production box for
> precisely the reason you stated.  I thought about it for a non critical
> production box, specifically our mail filter and one of our mail
> servers.  XFS is supposed to perform very well where there are a lot of
> little files, like with reiserfs, because it is highly cached.  This
> would work well with a maildir imap server.

xFS was designed to scale well to humongous, massively parallel
filesystems (e.g., 100 spindles w/ 64 CPUs).  It also works just fine
with a single disk and single CPU, though.

I used xFS on IRIX for many years.  I've never tried it on Linux.  I
use boring old ext3 on all the boxes at home.  I don't have any real
opinions on whether xFS, ReiserFs or ext3 is best, though.

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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