As others mentioned, this _has_ to be very badly outdated. On 12/24/02 12:34, Bill Campbell wrote:
I think it was in the installation instructions. I had started with a reference to the SGI site, then followed their links of systems that support XFS in the distribitions to gentoo. My next step was to start looking to see what's necessary to install it. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xmlLooking at this, I find statements like: ``XFS is a filesystem with metadata journaling that is fully supported under Gentoo Linux's xfs-sources kernel, but be warned that it is highly unstable at this time.''
Unstable how?? My XFS servers are the most stable boxes i have.
Huh? Sorry but my experiences with XFS are the exact opposite of this. THe box looses power, and XFS recovers gracefully, and you're back up with only 2 or 3 seconds of recovery time.``Please be careful with XFS; this filesystem has a tendency to fry lots of data if the system crashes or you lose power. Originally, it seemed like a promising filesystem but it now appears that this tendency to lose data is a major achilles' heel.''
Seeing how flawed Gentoo's comments are about XFS, i'd be hesitant to believe anything they say.I can't argue with the fact the XFS comes from a long, successful commercial background. My personal preference is to wait for formal adoption in the kernel (2.6), since I don't need the additional hassle of dealing with patches outside the main kernel tree.My feelings exactly. We've been using ext3 for a while, after having some very bad experiences with reiserfs a year or so ago on my laptop. The gentoo site has some very positive remarks about Reiser now, so I may reconsider that, at least for my development machines which tend to lots of relatively small files.
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