Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick LeRoy <> | Subject | Re: XFS? | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:20:36 -0700 |
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On Wednesday 11 September 2002 01:43, jw schultz wrote:
Not that I'm trying to keep this thread alive or anything..
> Yes it does. I'm guessing the one in 8.0 is an older > version because i found it performs abysmally. It seemed > stable enough but i used it for backups with lots of file > creation and deletion and my jobs took about 10 times longer > to run than on ext2 or JFS (also included in the 2.4.18+ > SuSE 8.0) For other use it is probably fine. I look > forward to trying newer versions.
I wasn't making any claims to have _tried_ it or anything. I simply stated that it's _there_ and, I think, supported. Personally, I've switched to Reiserfs (thanks, Hans!), which I'm _really_ happy with. Yeah, I should investigate the other options, but, honestly, there isn't a lot of neccessity to.
> And think about this: In almost all other OSs of substance > you have one or two basic filesystem types and if you want > journaling you have to pay extra for it. And journaling > filesystems don't have to be fast, there is very little real > competition.
I'm not sure if you're saying that this is a bad thing or a good thing. FWIW, I think this is a wonderful feature, albeit potentially confusing to a Newbie For my O2 running IRIX I get XFS whether I like it or not, for Solaris I get UFS no matter how much it sucks (I'm not really saying that it does; I don't have much knowledge of it to be honest). This multitude of choices really causes competition between them, and makes them all better in the long run.
Think about this: Namesys is working on Reiserfs v4.0. v4.0. Hell - it's only been incorporated into the mainstream kernel for less than a year (at least by my recollection), yet it keeps advancing. I have _no_ idea what UFS version Solaris 8 is using (admittedly at least somewhat due to ignorance -- I use Solaris because I have a good ol' SPARCprinter which alas is not supported by Linux), or whether they've bother to do development on it to make it better, faster, etc. Yet, _we_ get this advancement all the time. Isn't it great?!
Ok, time to step off my soapbox and get back to work.
-Nick
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