walt wrote:
Are you counting a crash as a form of 'reboot'? I can certainly understand why a busy kernel developer might want to speed up something he does many time a day -- but most sysadmins probably never want to reboot...
Heh... a crash is not only "a form" but probably "the form" of reboot Matt was thinking of.
I've watched ReiserFS crash and burn in horribly bad ways that the resulting fsck upon reboot took a long weekend to complete.
Of the various Linux filesystems I've used, I'm come to prefer XFS. The slowest operation seems to be deleting directories with large numbers of files. Otherwise, though, it's reasonably zippy and quite stable.
