Yes, Gentoo is conservative and that's good but at this point XFS has been in the field for a long time and has worked well. I personally feel the Gentoo people don't have a lot of experience with XFS so they just made some comments that are not all that factual (as Kurt Wall pointed out) - or maybe a better choice of words is that they aren't familiar and wrote what they thought was correct. Gentoo has not been a fan of XFS since I started using it. However, I spent a lot of time in this forum watching the threads on the various file systems and the experiences people have had. The result was that I chose XFS to get a file system that could put itself back together and not take a million hours to do it. Lonnie and Kurt have used it a lot and done stress testing on it - real stress testing <G> - and XFS works well.
Collins Richey wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:47:08 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Collins, I get the feeling that the Gentoo people are not very interested >> in XFS and they don't want us using it - although this doc is better than >> the previous one in which they discourged us from using it. I think they > > Good to hear positive comments. On the other hand, data reported on > gentoo usually has a factual basis, i.e. not crafted from whole cloth, so > somebody must have had rather unusual experience(s) with the product. > > BTW, let me emphasize, I'm neither a fan of nor opposed to XFS. > > Gentoo tends to be fairly conservative with their recommendations > (example: they do not recommend gentoo for a production server, which has > certainly not stopped > many users who contentedly run gentoo servers). The same may well apply > to XFS which works well except under whatever unusual circumstances the > documenters know. > > The other possibility, as Lonnie suggested, is that they based the > recommendation on an early version of XFS. > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
