Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Craig, > > I spoke with an XFS developer the other day on the (what else) #xfs > channel. Same server as hosts the #mandrake channel. We discussed what > you just now brought up; file attributes. I found out several things, > one was that the minimum size of an XFS partition was 6 megs. This > information is not readily available...I did RTFM before I resorted to > cruising irc.
Lyvim, what is the name of the mandrake channel on irc. Is it as simple as "#mandrake" , and what server is hosting it and #xfs? > > The other was that he was positive that the chattr command would be > unable to set an "i" attribute under XFS. He seemed unsure as to wether > there were other unsupported attributes or not. Just thought I'd bring > this up so you can add it to your information store if you haven't > already. > > I've been looking very strongly at XFS; however, I've gotten the > concrete impression that ext3 is a very hard to break filesystem. It > seems very robust; at least on this system. Yep, I agree. I have ext3 running on Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSE. It has performed quite well for me. Plus, I still have file attribs available if needed. > > This isn't the first time I've had lockups while trying something > marginal or power failures while working. It's happened before. In > every single instance, ext3 has cruised back into operation as if > oblivious that anything had occurred(knock on wood). Ext3 continues to > strike me as extremely robust. > > I'm highly curious about XFS, but then on the other hand I've been told > that it's very poor judgement to drop pristine FS performance in > exchange for an unknown when involving live data. In fact I just > finished telling myself that a few minutes ago. ;) > > I'm definitely going to try XFS, but before I do I plan on having a > mirror drive installed that RAID1's the main stripe array. > > Good luck... Thanks for the info, and do keep me updated on your experimenting with XFS. And if you talk to the developer again, ask him if there are any plans to implement file attributes in XFS. I would love to try it. Thanks and good luck too. -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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