Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: XFS and journalling filesystems | Date | Mon, 24 May 1999 17:52:13 +0800 | From | David Luyer <> |
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> You should wait to see just how serious they really are about this, and how > much of it they are really going to give you. Another Unix File system > (yawn yawn yawn) with journalling (which means it will be **SLOW**).
It is b-tree based - a robust b-tree based read-write filesystem with true Unix semantics is something which Linux could really use. Even if just for putting on read-only disks :-) It is a 64-bit filesystem, and they even state that its release is hoped to encourage the use of their hardware - I don't think they're aiming for it to be usable on 32-bit systems here.
I think their code, if acceptably licensed, may be very useful. But I don't think it should prevent us from supporting all other journalling and log-based filesystems known to man, especially polycenter advfs support would be nice, especially with dynamically resizable partitions and all the other magic OSF/1 (now Digital Unix (now Compaq Tru64)) supports :-) and an especially for Linux one too... there's no reason Linux should restrict itself to one of anything, supporting choice in such areas is so much nicer.
David.
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