Jerry McBride wrote: > On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:37:09 -0600 Glenn Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hi, Group: >> >>Last week someone said (Kurt Wall?) he prefers XFS over ext3, reiserfs >>and possibly others. But I didn't see any reasons given for the >>preference. >> >>I can (and will) read some info about XFS on the Internet, but I am more >>interested in hearing reasons for that choice from group memebers. >> > > > My personal experience with XFS has been quite good. The only hold back is > the fact that the kernel portion of it is applied as a patch. If your > favorite kernel version doesn't have an available XFS patch, then you're > out in the cold unless you cobble your own. Yeah right...
If you're going to patch a kernel, then you should be patching the official kernel, not some one else's version. > For that one, single reason, we've chosen to use EXT3 on the > commercial/business laptops where I work. It was chosen as an interim > measure until XFS is directly supported in the kernel like the other file > systems it has now. EXT3has proven to be quite stable, reliable and very > easy to implement. EXT3 has performance issues when used in an NFS > environment, but SAMBA has fixed that. :') Samba has some performance issues when used in any environment. I've been using XFS on two of my boxes for well over a year, and has been quite pleased with its stability & performance. XFS is proven industrial strength production code. The jury is still out on ext3 and Reiser. Also, ext3 still requires an occasional fsck, which XFS does not. Applying the XFS patch to a 2.4.x kernel is very very easy (a single patch command), and then you're good to go. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 11:30am up 8 days, 18:26, 5 users, load average: 0.04, 0.38, 0.41 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
