Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick LeRoy <> | Subject | Re: XFS? | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:41:54 -0500 |
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> > I'm not sure if you're saying that this is a bad thing or a good thing. > > FWIW, > > Unless you like tyrany choice is a good thing(TM). Trust > me, i don't like tyrany.
I like the way you phrased that...
> On Solaris and some other platforms you can, with lots of > money, buy a license to run the Veritas journaling > filesystem. It comes with a license manager and you have to > get license keys to mount the filesystems. Ever had a > filesystem not come up after a reboot because the license > expired, i have (ouch, i told management to renew the > license). Is veritas fast? I don't know. They hype the > journaling, not speed. And what are you going to benchmark > against?.
Wow.. I thought it was a pain in the ass when we had licencing problems with ClearCase.
> Recently Veritas announced they were going to support Linux. > I'm curious to see how they fare in a shootout with the > other journaling filesystems. Of course i wouldn't taint MY > kernel to run it when i have four others to choose from.
Why, oh, why would anybody _pay_ for something like that when there's a plethora of excellent filesystems for Linux already?!
> Fantastic. And that is largly without competition. Just > wait and watch what the JFS and XFS developers do to improve > their products to keep up.
At least there seems to be active & open development on them.
Thanks for the reply!
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